slack - Sends play events to a Slack channel

• Synopsis
  • Requirements
• Parameters
• Status
  • Author

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.
webhook_url required		ini entries: [callback_slack ] webhook_url = VALUE env:SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL	Slack Webhook URL

Status

Author

• UNKNOWN