The Ansible playbook

I am only going to cover the updating of the tasks for a single role here, and it is the role that creates the VPC. The first change I made was to add a few lines to the group_vars/common.yml file:

---environment_name: "VPC-Slack"ec2_region: "eu-west-1"slack:  token: "TBCRVDMGA/BBCPTPNH1/tyudQIccviG7gh4JnfeoPScc"  username: "Ansible"  icon: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Robot_icon.svg/200px-Robot_icon.svg.png"

As you can see, I added the following three nested variables:

  • token: This is taken from the Webhook URL; as you can see, I entered everything after https://hooks.slack.com/services/
  • username: We can override the username through which the updates will be posted, as I just kept it as Ansible ...

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