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community.general.mattermost – Send Mattermost notifications

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.0.1).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

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

Synopsis

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
api_key
string / required
Mattermost webhook api key. Log into your mattermost site, go to Menu -> Integration -> Incoming Webhook -> Add Incoming Webhook. This will give you full URL. api_key is the last part. http://mattermost.example.com/hooks/API_KEY
channel
string
Channel to send the message to. If absent, the message goes to the channel selected for the api_key.
icon_url
string
Default:
"https://www.ansible.com/favicon.ico"
Url for the message sender's icon.
text
string / required
Text to send. Note that the module does not handle escaping characters.
url
string / required
Mattermost url (i.e. http://mattermost.yourcompany.com).
username
string
Default:
"Ansible"
This is the sender of the message (Username Override need to be enabled by mattermost admin, see mattermost doc.
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
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 Mattermost
  community.general.mattermost:
    url: http://mattermost.example.com
    api_key: my_api_key
    text: '{{ inventory_hostname }} completed'

- name: Send notification message via Mattermost all options
  community.general.mattermost:
    url: http://mattermost.example.com
    api_key: my_api_key
    text: '{{ inventory_hostname }} completed'
    channel: notifications
    username: 'Ansible on {{ inventory_hostname }}'
    icon_url: http://www.example.com/some-image-file.png

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key Returned Description
payload
string
success
Mattermost payload
webhook_url
string
success
URL the webhook is sent to


Authors

  • Benjamin Jolivot (@bjolivot)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.11/collections/community/general/mattermost_module.html