Notify Slack Channel Of Failed Deployments

Humanitec Pipelines supports an http action which is able to send external requests with data from the Pipeline execution. This can be used to trigger or notify external systems. One example of this is to notify a channel in Slack or raise a support request or ticket.

In the following example, we’ll notify a Slack channel of the success or failure of all deployments through the Pipeline.

The Slack credential is stored as a secret Application Shared Value .

pipeline.yaml ( view on GitHub ) :

name: Deployment with Notifications
on:
  deployment_request: {}

# Inherit the permissions of the user triggering the deployment
permissions:
  run-as: inherit

jobs:
  deploy:
    # This critical property ensures that we don't stop the pipeline when the initial deployment fails.
    continue-on-error: true
    steps:
    - if: ${{ ! inputs.set_id }}
      name: Create Deployment Set
      id: create-deployment-set
      uses: actions/humanitec/apply@v1
      with:
        delta_id: ${{ inputs.delta_id }}
        env_id: ${{ inputs.env_id }}

    - name: Deploy Set To Environment
      uses: actions/humanitec/deploy@v1
      with:
        set_id: ${{ inputs.set_id || steps.create-deployment-set.outputs.set_id }}
        value_set_version_id: ${{ inputs.value_set_version_id }}
        env_id: ${{ inputs.env_id }}
        message: ${{ inputs.comment }}

  notify:
    needs: ["deploy"]
    steps:
    - name: Notify Slack
      uses: actions/humanitec/http@v1
      with: 
        method: POST
        url: ${{ app.values.SLACK_WEBHOOK }}
        headers:
          "Content-Type": "application/json"
        data:
          text: |
            Deployment to ${{ inputs environment }} ${{ needs.deploy.status }}.
            Comment: ${{ inputs.comment }}
            Link: "https://app.humanitec.io/orgs/${{ pipeline.org.id }}/apps/${{ pipeline.app.id }}/envs/${{ inputs.environment }}"

    # Now fail the pipeline if the initial deployment failed
    - name: Fail if failed
      if: ${{ needs.deploy.status == 'failed' }}
      uses: actions/humanitec/fail@v1
      with:
        message: Deployment failed.