Formatting Slack Messages Sent By Ansible
I’ve been sending some messages via ansible playbooks to slack and I ran into issues when I tried sending clickable links. Luckily the ansible slack module has the options you need.
Here’s an example of sending a standard message:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | - name: send message through slack
slack:
token: "{{ slack_token }}"
msg: |
"http://GregSowell.com"
"This is a great site"
channel: "{{ slack_channel }}"
parse: 'none'
delegate_to: localhost |
Unfortunately the URL above just shows up as standard text and isn’t clickable.
I can instead use the attachments module to make it clickable like so:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | - name: send message through slack
slack:
token: "{{ slack_token }}"
attachments:
- text: This is a great site
title: "Go to GregSowell.com"
title_link: "http://GregSowell.com"
channel: "{{ slack_channel }}"
parse: 'none'
delegate_to: localhost |
Now slack creates an attachment post that has the text along with the title being a clickable link.
Slack has an API message reference here that helps build the above.
