salt.states.slack#

Send a message to Slack#

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

New in version 2015.5.0.

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.
webhook: The identifier of WebHook (URL or token).
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.

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salt.states.slack#

Send a message to Slack#