Integrating with third-party services

Although you may be running the playbooks yourself, it’s a good idea to keep a log of your playbook run or update other team members or departments with the results. Ansible has several modules that allow you to work with third-party services to provide real-time notifications.

Let’s start by looking at Slack.

Slack

Slack has rapidly become the preferred option for team-based collaboration services across different IT departments. One key benefit of Slack is its support for third-party applications via its App Directory; Ansible supports Slack Incoming Webhooks via the community.general.slack module.

Remember, you can install the community.general collection if you don’t have it installed by running the following command:

$ ansible-galaxy collection install community.general

Before we look at the Ansible code, we should quickly discuss how you create a Slack App and enable webhooks.

First, you must make...