slack – Sends play events to a Slack channel¶

Synopsis
Requirements
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Synopsis ¶

This is an ansible callback plugin that sends status updates to a Slack channel during playbook execution.
Before 2.4 only environment variables were available for configuring this plugin

Requirements ¶

The below requirements are needed on the local master node that executes this callback.

whitelist in configuration
prettytable (python library)

Parameters ¶

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Configuration	Comments
channel -	Default: "#ansible"	ini entries: [callback_slack] channel = #ansible env:SLACK_CHANNEL	Slack room to post in.
username -	Default: "ansible"	ini entries: [callback_slack] username = ansible env:SLACK_USERNAME	Username to post as.
validate_certs boolean added in 2.8	Choices: no yes ←	ini entries: [callback_slack] validate_certs = yes env:SLACK_VALIDATE_CERTS	validate the SSL certificate of the Slack server. (For HTTPS URLs)
webhook_url - / required		ini entries: [callback_slack] webhook_url = VALUE env:SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL	Slack Webhook URL

Status ¶

This callback is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
This callback is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors¶

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