slack - Send Slack notifications

Author:Ramon de la Fuente <ramon@delafuente.nl>

Synopsis

New in version 1.6.

The slack module sends notifications to http://slack.com via the Incoming WebHook integration

Options

parameter	required	default	choices	comments
channel	no			Channel to send the message to. If absent, the message goes to the channel selected for the token.
domain	yes			Slack (sub)domain for your environment without protocol. (i.e. future500.slack.com)
icon_emoji	no			Emoji for the message sender. See Slack documentation for options. (if icon_emoji is set, icon_url will not be used)
icon_url	no			Url for the message sender's icon (default http://www.ansible.com/favicon.ico)
link_names	no	1	1 0	Automatically create links for channels and usernames in msg.
msg	yes			Message to send.
parse	no		full none	Setting for the message parser at Slack
token	yes			Slack integration token
username	no	ansible		This is the sender of the message.
validate_certs	no	yes	yes no	If no, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

Examples

- name: Send notification message via Slack
  local_action:
    module: slack
    domain: future500.slack.com
    token: thetokengeneratedbyslack
    msg: "{{ inventory_hostname }} completed"

- name: Send notification message via Slack all options
  local_action:
    module: slack
    domain: future500.slack.com
    token: thetokengeneratedbyslack
    msg: "{{ inventory_hostname }} completed"
    channel: "#ansible"
    username: "Ansible on {{ inventory_hostname }}"
    icon_url: "http://www.example.com/some-image-file.png"
    link_names: 0
    parse: 'none'