ci-alerts

CI Alerts

a simple action to customize Slack alerts for CI failures using Slack Webhooks. Simply, the action will send a message to a slack channel when a CI job fails in two cases:

• If the job is triggered by a pull_request AND the author of the PR is in the users_path file, the author will be mentioned in the message. the message will be as the following:

• If the job is triggered by a push to the master branch, the message will be sent to the channel with mentioning the channel.

Usage Example

name: Slack CI Alerts

on:
  workflow_run:
    workflows: [Test, Build, ...]
    types: [completed]

jobs:
  on-failure:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    if: github.event.workflow_run.conclusion == 'failure' 
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3.3.0
      - name: "Send Notification"
        uses: armadaproject/ci-alerts@v1
        env: 
          webhook: ${{ secrets.SLACK_WEBHOOK }}
          github_context: ${{ toJSON(github) }}
          users_path: ${{github.workspace}}/.github/gh-to-slackid

Environment Variables

• webhook: the slack webhook url. see more.
• github_context: the github context. you can get it from ${{ toJSON(github) }}.
• users_path: the path to the file that contains the mapping from a github username to a slack client id so the author can be mentioned in the message. If the author doesn't exist in the file, no message will be sent to the slack channel.

The format of the file should be as :

github-username:slack-id