Send Slack Message

Send a message to a Slack channel.

Requirements

Docker daemon must be installed and running. Please see Install Docker Engine for more information.

Installation

Download and install Flowpipe (https://flowpipe.io/downloads). Or use Brew:

brew tap turbot/tap
brew install flowpipe

Clone:

git clone https://github.com/turbot/flowpipe-samples.git
cd messaging/send_slack_message

Install mod dependencies:

flowpipe mod install

Credentials

By default, the following environment variables will be used for authentication:

• SLACK_TOKEN

You can also create credential resources in configuration files:

vi ~/.flowpipe/config/slack.fpc

credential "slack" "default" {
  token = "xoxp-12345-..."
}

For more information on credentials in Flowpipe, please see Managing Credentials.

Usage

Run the pipeline and specify the channel and text pipeline arguments:

flowpipe pipeline run send_slack_message --arg 'channel=my-channel' --arg 'text=Hello world!'