Steve Coffman StevenACoffman

A Webhook, in simple terms, is a user-defined HTTP callback. It is a mechanism for the system to notify you about an event. In our case, we need to send messages to a particular channel in slack. Slack calls in Incoming Webhook. It is a mechanism to send messages to your Slack Channel from external sources. These external sources could be any application or service that is capable of sending a JSON payload over HTTP into a Slack Channel. Each Channel will be identified by a unique Incoming Webhook URL to which you can post the message from outside. This configuration is done via the Integrations for your channel.

Steps to create a incoming webhook in Slack:

Naviagte to the Incoming Webhook URL. Click the hyper link incoming webhook integration below the heading Incoming Webhooks.
You will be asked to enter your team URL, followed by your slack credentials.
Once you have completed the above step, you will see the wizard kind of webpage to

You want to avoid CloudFormation because it’s slow, you don’t have much insight to what it’s doing while it’s running (the interface really sucks), it’s hard to stop it, and there are cases where it will get stuck for 4 hours (if certain internal components hang, it will retry twice with a 2 hr timeout and not even AWS premium support can unblock you). Terraform puts all of the control about what’s going on in your hands, the syntax is much simpler (CF’s json format is way too much syntax), and the “modules” feature allows for way simpler reusability.

Jonathan Block

From https://medium.com/@blockjon/scaling-jenkins-bad7a4ea046f

	#!/bin/bash

	# AWS CodePipeline execution status
	#
	# by Darren Hodges (http://github.com/hodglim)
	#
	# <bitbar.title>AWS CodePipeline execution status</bitbar.title>
	# <bitbar.version>v1.0</bitbar.version>
	# <bitbar.author>Darren Hodges</bitbar.author>
	# <bitbar.author.github>hodglim</bitbar.author.github>

	#!/bin/bash

	TOKEN_UUID=$(uuidgen)
	if [ -z ${GITHUB_USERID+x} ]; then
	echo "GITHUB_USERID is unset, exitting";
	exit 1
	else
	echo "GITHUB_USERID is set to '$GITHUB_USERID'"
	fi

	var https = require('https');
	var util = require('util');

	exports.handler = function (event, context) {
	console.log(JSON.stringify(event, null, 2));
	console.log('From SNS:', event.Records[0].Sns.Message);

	var severity = "good";
	var message = event.Records[0].Sns.Message;
	var messageJSON = JSON.parse(message);

	from __future__ import print_function
	import json, urllib, urllib2

	def send_slack(message):
	"""
	Send Slack Message to Deployments Channel
	"""
	slack_token = ''
	slack_channel = ''
	slack_user = 'Deployment Bot'