I have a custom SaltStack event and want to send a message to our IRC when the event occurs. I know how to hook into this event. Question is: How to send a message to our IRC server using SaltStack?
There is an ircbot engine.
The documentation on engines say:
Salt Engines are long-running, external system processes that leverage Salt.
This sounds like the tool that I need.
But I did not find an example how to send a message to the ircbot from a Salt State. The examples only show how to send a message to the ircbot from an already logged in IRC user.
The ircbot engine is not currently setup to handle what you are asking for. It is a generic engine that only takes commands and returns results based on that command.
It is mostly used as an example engine for designing your own. So could be updated to a custom engine to do what you are asking about.