community.general.pagerduty_change module – Track a code or infrastructure change as a PagerDuty change event

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 8.6.8).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.pagerduty_change.

New in community.general 1.3.0

Synopsis

  • This module will let you create a PagerDuty change event each time the module is run.

  • This is not an idempotent action and a new change event will be created each time it is run.

Aliases: monitoring.pagerduty_change

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • PagerDuty integration key

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

environment

string

The environment name, typically production, staging, and so on.

integration_key

string / required

The integration key that identifies the service the change was made to. This can be found by adding an integration to a service in PagerDuty.

link_text

string

Descriptive text for a URL where more information about the deployment can be obtained.

string

A URL where more information about the deployment can be obtained.

repo

string

The URL of the project repository.

revision

string

An identifier of the revision being deployed, typically a number or SHA from a version control system.

source

string

The source of the change event.

Default: "Ansible"

summary

string / required

A short description of the change that occurred.

url

string

URL to submit the change event to.

Default: "https://events.pagerduty.com/v2/change/enqueue"

user

string

The name of the user or process that triggered this deployment.

validate_certs

boolean

If false, SSL certificates for the target URL will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

Check mode simply does nothing except returning changed=true in case the url seems to be correct.

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: none

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

Examples

- name: Track the deployment as a PagerDuty change event
  community.general.pagerduty_change:
    integration_key: abc123abc123abc123abc123abc123ab
    summary: The application was deployed

- name: Track the deployment as a PagerDuty change event with more details
  community.general.pagerduty_change:
    integration_key: abc123abc123abc123abc123abc123ab
    summary: The application was deployed
    source: Ansible Deploy
    user: ansible
    repo: github.com/ansible/ansible
    revision: '4.2'
    environment: production
    link_url: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1269
    link_text: View changes on GitHub

Authors

  • Adam Vaughan (@adamvaughan)