Slack support (via Slack button and Incoming Webhook)

[herder]

It would be nice to be able to integrate with webhooks to other systems. In our case, we would like to post a notification to Slack when an app is deployed.

[axelfontaine]

Thank you for the suggestion. Could you detail which information you feel should be present in the notification?

[herder]

This is the info we would like to use for this case:

• app name
• current app version
• app version to be deployed
• environment

and possibly:

• ami id
• AWS region

Ideally as environment variables which can be used to customize a payload, something like:

{
"message": "Deploying $BOXFUSE_APP:$NEW_APP_VERSION to $BOXFUSE_ENV. (Currently running version: $CURRENT_APP_VERSION"
}

It would be really useful to be able to set webhooks on these events:

• on deployment of a new app
• when the health of the new app is ok, and the load balancer is pointed to the new version
• when the old app is torn down

[axelfontaine]

Hmmm for Slack, wouldn't it be better to go for a Slack Button instead? The data could then be part of attachments posted in messages from incoming webhooks.

What do you think?

[herder]

Yes, that would be excellent! It's actually what we would use it for, but I didn't want to be that technology-specific... :)

[axelfontaine]

Well we actually don't mind to be technology-specific as long as the technology we integrate with is widely deployed and being specific adds clear benefits (like great usability in this case).

[herder]

Hi, just noticed the 'waiting for feedback' label on this one... :)

We're really interested in this feature, to avoid manual notifications when a deploy is starting.

[armaanbindra]

Yes this would be really useful for us at @voiceittech as well. Thanks, Armaan

[khromov]

@axelfontaine Any movement on this? 👍

[axelfontaine]

@khromov Not yet.