Slack deploy announcer

A Python3 script implementing a /deploy Slack custom slash command.

This replaces shouting at your teammates ("hey people deployyyyy on production", "WAT?!?!" "LOL")

Also useful to know which branch will be deployed.

Requirements

• boto3 library
• tested with Python 3.6.3 (Python 2.x not supported - about time)

Install

This script code has been factored to be deployed on AWS Lambda

• Configure the AWS Lambda

• Create the credentials to access credentials (EC2 > AWS Parameter Store)

  /slack_deployer/app_token

  /slack_deployer/slack_token

• Create a zip of this package

  zip -r slack_announcer.zip slack_announcer

• upload the zip on AWS Lambda

Slack command usage

/deploy help for a quick syntax help

/deploy <world> <component> <environment> <branch> full command

Notes

This repo can't be simply copied and pasted for your use case, it needs to be adapted. 'Twas just a toy project for a NonStopHacking @Mittelab. But it should get you started.

References

• Slack chat.postMessage API

• Slack chat post message tester