How to notify Slack for AWS CodePipeline
To notify Slack for AWS CodePipeline, create a notification rule for the pipeline, selecting all events and Slack as the target. Register the Slack channel as a target and configure a new chatbot client. After authorizing Slack, specify the Slack channel to connect to, set the chatbot's privileges, and establish guard rules. With read-only access for both allowed rules and guard conditions, the pipeline can trigger notifications to the Slack channel.
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First I created a notification rule for my pipeline.
Rule creation would require a name ( obviously ) and events that should be notified and a target system that the notification should send.
Since I would prefer to receive all the events, I choose all and Slack as the target.
Since my newly created Slack channel is not yet registered as a target I attempted target creation.
Not it is time for me to configure the chatbot. I create a new client.
AWS offered me two options for the client Slack and AWS Chime, I proceed with Slack and it directed me to Slack for authorization for the Slack workspace.
Once I authorized, there are a few more additional configurations needed to do.
What Slack channel should be connected to? What sort of privileges I should allow to the chatbot and what are the guard rules I should create?
Since my only intention is to view what's going on with my CI/CD pipeline, I just set AWS read-only access for both allowed rule and guard conditions.
I triggered my pipeline and started to flood my channel with all the events.
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