A lot of people use Gmail daily to send and receive mail. The estimated number of global users in 2020 was 1.8 billion. Gmail works on the SMTP protocol over port number 587. In this article, I demonstrate how to configure your SMTP web server and send mail automatically from Ansible and using ansible-vault to secure passwords.
Encrypt your password file
The ansible-vault command creates an encrypted file where you can store your confidential details.
ansible-vault create secret.yml
Gmail setup
By default, Gmail doesn’t permit Less secure app access to their web server. For this, you have a solution: You can change the setting to enable Less secure app access.
Go to your Google account:
Click on Security and scroll down:
Click on Less secure app access and allow it:
Email Playbook
Configure the localhost as your web server, which is working on SMTP protocol over port 587. Username, password, and to fields are the Ansible modules. Subject and body are modules in which you can provide our subject and body content. The following is the email.yml file.
---
- hosts: localhost
vars_files: secret.yml
tasks:
- name: Sending an email using Ansible
mail:
host: smtp.gmail.com
port: 587
username: 500069614@stu.upes.ac.in
password: "{{ p }}"
to: mrsarthak001@gmail.com
subject: Email By Ansible
body: Test successful
delegate_to: localhostRun the playbook
Run the playbook with the given command below. Use –ask-vault-pass flag while running the playbook with this keyword Ansible ask vault password and run your playbook.
ansible-playbook –ask-vault-pass email.yml
The email is sent successfully:
Wrap up
These steps demonstrate how to configure Gmail to send email messages from Ansible. In addition, you can secure your passwords in Ansible Vault.
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