Layoffs are a regular corporate response to the difficulties created by technological advancements and escalating global competitiveness.Developers and businesses can interact and share information via Slack.
Recently, it has become more and more common for engineers to manage their small team of engineers.
In order to manage Jenkins build results, incorporate Pull requests, and notify the team of open issues using Github Actions, Kritagya may link to the Slack workspace and channels. To send requests to a Go backend, the bot programme will use Websocket, also referred to as "Socket-Mode" in the Slack community.
💫 Go Script for Slack Notifications
Get notified in Slack channels with ease! Our Go script is here to make your life easier. With just a few lines of code, you'll be able to keep track of your builds and never miss an update again.
Our script is packed with all the essentials:
- Imports the necessary packages, including `github.com/joho/godotenv` for loading environment variables and `github.com/slack-go/slack` for connecting to Slack.
- Defines a main function that creates a new Slack client and socket client with your Slack tokens.
- Sends a message to the Slack channel of your choice with the latest build details, including the Build URL, Build Result, Build Number, and Job Name, all presented in a stylish markdown format.
- Sends a second message with the classic "Hello World!" to showcase the power of our script.
- Creates a context and launches a goroutine to handle incoming Slack events, so you can stay in the loop.
- The goroutine listens to incoming events, logs any errors, and shuts down the socket mode listener on context cancellation, keeping your code error-free.
- Defers the context cancellation to prevent memory leaks, ensuring your script runs smoothly and efficiently.
Upgrade your Slack game today and make the most of our Go script for Slack notifications!
💫 How to set up Kritagya locally
- Set up a new slack app for your slack channel using the necessary scopes and slash commands used in Kritagya.
- On a local computer where you have a Go installed, clone this repository and go to
.env.examplefile. Copy the contents - Next, create a new file titled
.envand paste the contents ,followed by replacing the values available in slack-api dashboard - Go to Jenkinsfile and replace credentialsId with your ssh key and url with your repository url (see,line 8) , Next, replace the slack-channel in repository.yml with the channelID ,you want to send notifications to
- Run
go run main.go https://localhost:3000 SUCCESS test 1in terminal to run a dummy test 🎊
💫How to use commands of Kritagya
- hello @Kritagya : This command Greets you with your username and ensures that you have a lovely day
- @Kritagya : this helps us know that you are ready to throw instructions at us ❤️
- /namaste : [Optional slash commands] now that we have our bot ready , lets learn some French using /namaste
- Now create/close any issue in your repository, and notice how Kritagya’s automated tools pick it up instantly to flashes us the message
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Note:
👉 This tells us which branch has opened or closed an issue (here, main ) 👉 This will also tell us about the URL
- Now make some changes in your local copy of Kritagya and push the changes to
mainbranch
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Note:
👉 This tells us which branch has new commits pushed (here, main ) 👉 This will also tell us about the URL
- Start Your Jenkins Pipeline and run a build
Notice how almost Instantly a pipeline is finished and Krityaga Notifies it with either a not success or Success result.
Successful with URl of the Jenkins build
- Merge a Pull Request onto main branch : Welcome new Pull Requests, Kritagya makes sure that no PR goes skips the maintainers eyes 👏
💫 Scalability Scope
The slackbot programme must be updated when new versions of the slackbot programme are available if you decide to package the slackbot software into an executable that can be deployed on the Jenkins instance. When the Jenkins pipeline script runs, you must make sure that the go programming language is installed and that you can clone down the most recent version of the go application from github.
💫Privacy and Security
Currently , one vulnerability with Kritagya happens to be using the https://github.com/archive/github-actions-slack This essestialy doesn’t accept environment variables as the slack channel-ID, This can be removed by upgrading to the paid version available, or building a environment configuration management tool from scratch
💫 Challenges
We can change our turning a slackbot software into microservice utilise just one API endpoint endpoint requires a user-hash in json. the payload in json and the payload What were the previous orders? line references if we want to run the Slackbot application. Is this the only dependence for Jenkins? needs Does the curl tool allow you to call UH? the API's json payload endpoint There will be no need to leave as a result. programming language installed on jenkins or by setting up the Slackbot programme itself on Jenkins Additionally, this will generally be a scalable substitute for what we had earlier .