community.general.pagerduty_change – Track a code or infrastructure change as a PagerDuty change event

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.pagerduty_change.

New in version 1.3.0: of community.general

Synopsis

  • This module will let you create a PagerDuty change event each time the module is run.
  • This is not an idempotent action and a new change event will be created each time it is run.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • PagerDuty integration key

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
environment
string
The environment name, typically production, staging, etc.
integration_key
string / required
The integration key that identifies the service the change was made to. This can be found by adding an integration to a service in PagerDuty.
link_text
string
Descriptive text for a URL where more information about the deployment can be obtained.
link_url
string
A URL where more information about the deployment can be obtained.
repo
string
The URL of the project repository.
revision
string
An identifier of the revision being deployed, typically a number or SHA from a version control system.
source
string
Default:
"Ansible"
The source of the change event.
summary
string / required
A short description of the change that occurred.
url
string
Default:
"https://events.pagerduty.com/v2/change/enqueue"
URL to submit the change event to.
user
string
The name of the user or process that triggered this deployment.
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
If no, SSL certificates for the target URL will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

Notes

Note

  • Supports check_mode. Note that check mode simply does nothing except returning changed=true in case the url seems to be correct.

Examples

- name: Track the deployment as a PagerDuty change event
  community.general.pagerduty_change:
    integration_key: abc123abc123abc123abc123abc123ab
    summary: The application was deployed

- name: Track the deployment as a PagerDuty change event with more details
  community.general.pagerduty_change:
    integration_key: abc123abc123abc123abc123abc123ab
    summary: The application was deployed
    source: Ansible Deploy
    user: ansible
    repo: github.com/ansible/ansible
    revision: '4.2'
    environment: production
    link_url: https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1269
    link_text: View changes on GitHub

Authors

  • Adam Vaughan (@adamvaughan)

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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/pagerduty_change_module.html