IRC is probably the most well-known and widely-used chat protocol of the 1990s and it's still used today, mainly due to its use in open source communities and its simplicity. From an Ansible perspective, IRC is a pretty straightforward module and we can use it as in the following example (to be put in the uptime_and_irc.yaml file):
- hosts: localhost
tasks:
- name: Read the machine uptime
command: 'uptime -p'
register: uptime
- name: Send the uptime to IRC channel
irc:
port: 6669
server: irc.example.net
channel: #desired_channel
msg: 'Local system uptime is {{ uptime.stdout }}.'
color: green
In the IRC module, the following fields are required:
channel: This is to specify in which channel your message will be deliveredmsg...