Send a message to Slack

This state is useful for sending messages to Slack during state runs.

slack-message:
  slack.post_message:
    - channel: '#general'
    - from_name: SuperAdmin
    - message: 'This state was executed successfully.'
    - api_key: peWcBiMOS9HrZG15peWcBiMOS9HrZG15

The api key can be specified in the master or minion configuration like below:

slack:
  api_key: peWcBiMOS9HrZG15peWcBiMOS9HrZG15

salt.states.slack.post_message(name, **kwargs)

Send a message to a Slack channel.

slack-message:
  slack.post_message:
    - channel: '#general'
    - from_name: SuperAdmin
    - message: 'This state was executed successfully.'
    - api_key: peWcBiMOS9HrZG15peWcBiMOS9HrZG15

The following parameters are required:

api_key parameters:

name

The unique name for this event.

channel

The channel to send the message to. Can either be the ID or the name.

from_name

The name of that is to be shown in the "from" field.

message

The message that is to be sent to the Slack channel.

The following parameters are optional:

api_key

The api key for Slack to use for authentication, if not specified in the configuration options of master or minion.

icon

URL to an image to use as the icon for this message

webhook parameters:

name

The unique name for this event.

message

The message that is to be sent to the Slack channel.

color

The color of border of left side

short

An optional flag indicating whether the value is short enough to be displayed side-by-side with other values.

identifier

The identifier of WebHook.

channel

The channel to use instead of the WebHook default.

username

Username to use instead of WebHook default.

icon_emoji

Icon to use instead of WebHook default.