CodePipeline Chatbot Notifier

An AWS SAR component that sends CodePipeline notifications to AWS Chatbot, which itself can publish messages to Slack, etc.

You'll need to deploy this once per CodePipeline you wish to receive notitications for.

If you want to integrate Chatbot with CodeBuild instead then please see the CodeBuild version of this component.

Usage

Deploying using CloudFormation

If you deploy your CodePipeline infrastructure using CloudFormation, then you can include the Chatbot Notifier SAR component in the same template as your CodePipeline. First, make sure you've included the SAM transform in your CloudFormation template - we normally put it as the second line:

Transform: AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31

Next, in the Resources section of your template, add a SAR resource as follows:

  ChatbotNotifier:
    Type: AWS::Serverless::Application
    Properties:
      Location:
        ApplicationId: arn:aws:serverlessrepo:us-east-1:073101298092:applications/codepipeline-chatbot
        SemanticVersion: 1.0.1
      Parameters:
        CodePipeline: 'YOUR_CODEPIPELINE_NAME'

This SAR has one required parameter: CodePipeline . Typically you'll set this to !Ref YOUR_CODEPIPELINE_RESOURCE (not quoted inside a string!), where YOUR_CODEPIPELINE_RESOURCE is the logical resource name of the AWS::CodePipeline::Pipeline resource that is also in this CloudFormation template.

Example

For an example of configuring Chatbot Notifier with CloudFormation, see the ChatbotNotifier resource in this template.

Deploying without CloudFormation

If you want to deploy without CloudFormation you can do so from the Serverless Application Repository browser here.

Setting up Chatbot

This SAR app doesn't actually publish notifications to Slack, etc., it merely puts them in a place AWS Chatbot can use them. Therefore to publish the actual notifications to Slack see the AWS Chatbot documentation. You'll need to know the SNS topic name to connect to Chatbot - that's available in the SNSTopicName CloudFormation Output value of the SAR component.

Advanced usage

Configuration

Apart from the required CodePipeline parameter, there are other optional parameters to the resource. Here's the full list of parameters.

Name	Required	Default	Description
CodePipeline	Yes	n/a	The name of the CodePipeline to capture notifications from. Equal to the "Ref" value of the AWS::CodePipeline::Pipeline resource.
NotificationRuleName	No	Same value as CodePipeline	Set if you wish to override the name given to the CodeStar Notification Rule - this is necessary if the CodePipeline argument is longer than 64 characters.
DetailType	No	FULL	The level of detail to include in the notifications for this resource. (see AWS documentation).

Further customization

If you'd like further customization, e.g. changing the name of the SNS topic or customizing which events are published, then I recommend replacing the SAR with the plain resources in the SAR's source template (see here) - the SAR has no Lambda components, just plain CloudFormation resources which you can drop into a regular CloudFormation template.

Final comment

This component supersedes my previous SAR app Code Pipeline Slack Notifier, which is no longer maintained, and deprecated.