packer-slacknotifications

Packer post-processor plugin for Slack notifications

Description

The Packer Slack Notification post-processor assists you in sending Slack notifications when a build is complete.

Installation

Packer supports plugins. Please read document the following:
https://www.packer.io/docs/extend/plugins.html

You can download binaries built for your architecture from latest releases.

Usage

The following example template.json:

{
  "builders": [{
    "type": "amazon-ebs",
    "region": "us-east-1",
    "source_ami": "ami-6869aa05",
    "instance_type": "t2.micro",
    "ssh_username": "ec2-user",
    "ssh_pty": "true",
    "ami_name": "packer-example {{timestamp}}"
  }],
  "provisioners":[{
    "type": "shell",
    "inline": [
      "echo 'running...'"
    ]
  }],
  "post-processors":[{
    "type": "slack-notifications",
    "channel": "general",
    "url": "https://slackwebhook.url/slackwebhookid"
  }]
}

Configuration

Type: slack-notifications

Required:

• channel (string)
  • The channel to which to send the notification.
• url (string)
  • The Slack Webhook URL

Developing Plugin

If you wish to build this plugin on your environment, you can use GNU Make build system.
But this Makefile depends on Go. At First, you should install Go.
And we use godep for dependency management. Please looks the reference

Run Test

make test
go get github.com/tools/godep
godep restore
go get ./...
go test ./...
?       github.com/turnbullpress/packer-slacknotifications  [no test files]
?        github.com/turnbullpress/packer-slacknotifications/plugin   0.029s

Run the unit tests when developing changes to the plugin.

Installation

make install
go get github.com/tools/godep
godep restore
go get ./...
go test ./...
?       github.com/turnbullpress/packer-slacknotifications  [no test files]
?       github.com/turnbullpress/packer-slacknotifications/plugin   0.023s
go build ./
mkdir -p ~/.packer.d/plugins
install ./packer-slacknotifications ~/.packer.d/plugins/

Run tests, build and move the compiled plugin to the plugin directory.

Release

make release
go get github.com/tools/godep
godep restore
go get ./...
go test ./...
?       github.com/turnbullpress/packer-slacknotifications  [no test files]
github.com/turnbullpress/packer-slacknotifications/plugin   0.020s
...
go get github.com/mitchellh/gox
gox --output 'dist/{{.OS}}_{{.Arch}}/{{.Dir}}'
...

Run tests, build for each architecture and archive binaries.