sendgrid – Sends an email with the SendGrid API

New in version 2.0.

Synopsis
Requirements
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Status

Synopsis

Sends an email with a SendGrid account through their API, not through the SMTP service.

Requirements

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

sendgrid python library

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
api_key - added in 2.2		sendgrid API key to use instead of username/password
attachments - added in 2.2		a list of relative or explicit paths of files you want to attach (7MB limit as per SendGrid docs)
bcc - added in 2.2		a list of email addresses to bcc
cc - added in 2.2		a list of email addresses to cc
from_address - / required		the address in the "from" field for the email
from_name - added in 2.2		the name you want to appear in the from field, i.e 'John Doe'
headers - added in 2.2		a dict to pass on as headers
html_body boolean added in 2.2	Choices: no ← yes	whether the body is html content that should be rendered
password -		password that corresponds to the username Since 2.2 it is only required if api_key is not supplied.
subject - / required		the desired subject for the email
to_addresses - / required		a list with one or more recipient email addresses
username -		username for logging into the SendGrid account. Since 2.2 it is only required if api_key is not supplied.

Notes

Note

This module is non-idempotent because it sends an email through the external API. It is idempotent only in the case that the module fails.
Like the other notification modules, this one requires an external dependency to work. In this case, you’ll need an active SendGrid account.
In order to use api_key, cc, bcc, attachments, from_name, html_body, headers you must pip install sendgrid
since 2.2 username and password are not required if you supply an api_key

Examples

# send an email to a single recipient that the deployment was successful
- sendgrid:
    username: "{{ sendgrid_username }}"
    password: "{{ sendgrid_password }}"
    from_address: "[email protected]"
    to_addresses:
      - "[email protected]"
    subject: "Deployment success."
    body: "The most recent Ansible deployment was successful."
  delegate_to: localhost

# send an email to more than one recipient that the build failed
- sendgrid:
      username: "{{ sendgrid_username }}"
      password: "{{ sendgrid_password }}"
      from_address: "[email protected]"
      to_addresses:
        - "[email protected]"
        - "[email protected]"
      subject: "Build failure!."
      body: "Unable to pull source repository from Git server."
  delegate_to: localhost

Status

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

Authors

Matt Makai (@makaimc)

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https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.8/modules/sendgrid_module.html