Gitlab Pipeline Annoyer

Purpose

Post to a Slack channel when a Gitlab MR pipeline fails, @ing both the MR author and the merger.

The message will look something like

Failed MR: helm chart update for contact
Author: @john.smith
Merged by: @john.smith
Failed jobs
- test_dex Failed
- test_dev Failed
- test_smoke_dev Failed

Configuration

Create a Slack app and give it the following permissions

• chat:write
• chat:write.customize
• chat:write.public
• users.profile:read

Running

The environment variables required are

• GITLAB_API_TOKEN
• GITLAB_API_HOSTNAME
• SLACK_API_TOKEN
• SLACK_CHANNEL

docker-compose up -d

Testing

docker-compose up -d
curl -v -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d @pipeline.json localhost:3000

TODO

At the moment it is assumed your users have the same usernames in both Gitlab and Slack