Role Name

Ansible role to send notifications to the slack channel about deploy status. Role detects current user on host system to explain who triggered deploy

Requirements

1. Get webhook url from slack and extract token part:

• URL: https://hooks.slack.com/services/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
• Token is T02FC8HRT/B3QTFE7E0/QA0mMNQv5kVJoAvEEE9Y2qSs

2. Specify token as notifications_slack_token variable

Role Variables

Here is the list of default variables with default values:

notification_app_name: Unknown App
notification_environment_type: Unknown Instance
notification_deploy_info: deploying
notification_color: normal

Final slack message with these variables will look like: Unknown App (Unknown Environment) deploying

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

Including an example of how to use your role (for instance, with variables passed in as parameters) is always nice for users too:

- hosts: all
  gather_facts: false
  
  roles:
    - role: matic-insurance.deploy-notification
      notification_deploy_info: 'deploy started'
      notification_color: 'warning'
      notifications_slack_token: '{{ slack_token }}'

Actual task notification is executed only once on local host.

In our projects we have notification about start and end of deploy to see when deploy is finished

License

MIT

Author Information

Matic is a communication platform that connects lenders and borrowers originating a new home loan. A borrower now knows where they are in the loan process and what they need to do to complete the loan.