notify-status

Github Action for sending pipeline notifications to Slack and Teams.

USAGE

  - uses: marcdomain/notify-status@v1
    if: always()
    with:
      app: slack
      notify_on: success # remove notify_on to always receive notification
      status: ${{ job.status }}
      webhook_url: ${{ secrets.WEBHOOK_URL }}
      message: Notification sent successfully

Arguments	Scope	Option	Description
app	required	slack, teams	The app you're sending the notification to.
notify_on	optional	success, failure	Choose when to receive notifications
status	required	${{ job.status }}	Always returns success or failure
webhook_url	required	Value should be saved as secret	Slack or teams webhook_url
message	required	Message to be displayed in notification	Message to be displayed in notification

NOTE:

• The conditional statement if: always() enables a step in github actions pipeline to always run even when the preceding steps of the job failed.
• ${{ job.status }} return the status of the job where this action is being used. To get the status of the preceding jobs, you would have to cache or archive the jobs status.