Setup Slack Team

An ansible role to setup slack team.

Role Variables

This is a sample of a YAML file containing the variables.

---
slack_token: XXXXXXXXXXX
slack_users:
  - first_name: AAA
    last_name: BBBB
    email: aaabbb@example.com
    channels:
      - "a"
      - "b"
      - "c"
slack_channels:
  - name: "c"
    private: no

Here are the description of each variables:

• slack_token: The token generated by a user that has admin priviledge (see https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/215770388-Create-and-regenerate-API-tokens for instructions)
• slack_users: a list of dictionaries with user data
• slack_channels: a list of groups to be created (can be an empty list)

Due to the sensitive nature of the variables it's best to use ansible-vault to create the vars.yml

Steps:

1. $ ansible-vault create vars.yml it will ask for a password and it will be needed when we're running the playbook later
2. Specify the variables in the file and save it

Important note:

• You must be running this as an Admin user in the Slack workspace.

Running the Playbook

$ ansible-playbook -e "@path/to/vars.yml" playbooks/setup_slack.yml --ask-vault-pass and enter the password you've previously set for vars.yml

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - { role: setup-slack }  

License

Apache License 2.0

Author Information

Red Hat Community of Practice & staff of the Red Hat Open Innovation Labs.