Connecting Opsera to Slack

Owned by Vasanthavishnu Vasudevan
Last updated: Aug 31, 2021 by Todd Barczak
3 min read

This tutorial will walk you through how to create and configure the Slack tool for Slack notifications.

 

The below mentioned steps will guide the step by step workflow:

  1. On Tool Registry > Click on New Tool and enter the details to create new Slack Tool

2. Once Tool is created, click on Connections tab

3. Click on ‘Add to Slack’ button and enter Slack credentials → which will add the Opsera app to respective Slack

With the above steps, Opsera app has been added to the Slack.

The below steps will guide on getting one way slack notification to a slack channel.

4. On Pipeline, on any step - Click on the Notification icon

5. Enable Slack Notifications and select Notification Level - ‘Step Completed’ or ‘On error’ or ‘All Activity’

6. Select Slack Tool [Created from Tool Registry] and Enter Channel - where the notifications will be sent

7. Click on Save button, so that the notification settings will be saved

8. Now, Trigger the pipeline → Based upon the notification level set, notifications will be sent to respective slack channel.

With the above steps - one way slack notifications can be configured and notifications can be received.

The below steps will guide you on two way slack notification with ‘Approve’ or ‘Deny’ flow

9. On the Pipeline steps - Add ‘Approval Gate’ step where approval is needed to move to other pipeline steps

10. After Approval Gate step is saved - click on Notification icon and enter the Slack Notification details and Click Save

11. Now, run the pipeline and when it reaches ‘Approval Gate’ step → Step status will be changed and will wait for approval from Slack Channel.

12. An Approval notification will be sent on the respective slack channel

13. Click on ‘Approve’ button on the slack notification → Approved message will be updated on the same Slack Notification

14. Once Approved, Pipeline execution resumes and moves to further pipeline steps for execution.

In the same way, if ‘Deny’ button clicked on Slack notification, pipeline execution will be stopped.

With the above workflow steps, Slack Approve/Deny can be configured and pipeline approval/notification can be controlled.