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Integrating Slack with GitHub Actions for sending Notifications

Pre-requisites:

• Slack workspace is configured and channel created
• Make sure your Project is setup in GitHub

How to integrate Slack with GitHub Actions:

We will be using slack GitHub Action Slack integration action for posting messages to Slack channel from GitHub Actions.

We will be following below steps:

1. Create a new App in https://api.slack.com/apps

2. Select workspace in the app

3.Select incoming webhooks

4. Activate incoming webhook

5. Add new webhook integration

6. Select channel, Allow

7. Copy the webhook url

Create App from scratch

Enter App name and pick a workspace

Click on incoming webhooks

Activate incoming webhooks, click on Add new webhook to workspace

Select the channel where you want to send notfications

Copy webhook url

Add Slack Webhook URL as Secret in GitHub Actions

Go to your GitHub Repo --> Settings --> 

Click on Secrets and Variables under Security in left nav 

Click new Repository Secret

Add SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL with value

Create GitHub Actions CICD workflow yaml:

Go to GitHub repo where your Java project is, create a new file:

.github/workflows/cicd.yml

name: cicd-workflow with slack integration

on:

  push:

    branches:

      - main

  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:

  build:

    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    env:

      SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL: ${{ secrets.SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL }}

    steps:

    - uses: actions/checkout@v3

    - name: Set up JDK 11

      uses: actions/setup-java@v2

      with:

        distribution: 'adopt'

        java-version: '11'

    - name: Build with Maven

      run: mvn install -f MyWebApp/pom.xml

    - uses: act10ns/slack@v2

      with:

        channel: '#mar-2024-weekday-batch'

        status: ${{ job.status }}

        steps: ${{ toJson(steps) }}

      if: always()

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