Concourse Google Hangouts Resource

A Concourse resource to post to notification to Google Hagouts room using webhooks, the notification includes the pipeline name, The job name and build number which the resource is running under, and an optional message.

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Resource Type Configuration

resource_types:
  - name: hangouts-resource
    type: docker-image
    source:
      repository: cloudinn/concourse-hangouts-resource
      tag: latest

Source Configuration

• webhook_url: Required - (String). The webhook generated for Hagouts channel. (i.e. "https://chat.googleapis.com/v1/spaces/ABC/messages?key=DEF)
• post_url: Optional - (Boolean). Include link to the current job, this is pipeline wide setting in all jobs using resource, can be overridden in params in each step. (Default: true)

Example

resources:
- name: hangouts
  type: hangouts-resource
  source:
    webhook_url: {{pipeline_alerts_webhook}}
    post_url: true

Behaviour

check: Non-functional

in: Non-functional

out: Post message to Hangouts chat room

Posts the given message to Google Hangouts channel that is corresponding to the webhook. It additionally includes information from the current running build as $BUILD_PIPELINE_NAME which is the pipeline name, $BUILD_NAME which reflects the build id shown in Concourse Web UI, and $BUILD_JOB_NAME which is the job name as defined in the pipeline, both build id and job name belongs to the current build for the job the resource is used under.

Parameters

• message: Optional - (String). The message to post along the other information to Hangouts room.
• message_file Optional - (String). Path to file containing text to append to message)
• post_url Optional - (Boolean). Include link to the current job, if set this will override post_url in source for the current step. (Default: Fall back to post_url in source)

Example

You're suggested to use it under try: step, you don't want your build to fail if the resource failed

jobs:
  - name: some-job
    plan:
      - try:
          put: hangouts
          params:
            message: "Successfully released version: "
            message_file: project/version.txt

Suggested Use Case:

jobs:
  - name: some-job
    plan:
      - try:
          put: hangouts
          params:
            message: Job Started !
            post_url: true

      # .
      # .
      # .
      # Some steps to execute
      # .
      # .
      # .

    on_failure:
      try:
        put: hangouts
        params:
          message: Job Failed !

    on_success:
      try:
        put: hangouts
        params:
          message: Job Succeeded !
          post_url: false

Full example:

This is a working example of a pipeline file that does absolutely nothing other than posting to Hangouts.

You can test it as is after passing hangouts_webhook while setting up the pipeline or replacing ((hangouts_webhook)) in place with the webhook URL.

resource_types:
  - name: hangouts-resource
    type: docker-image
    source:
      repository: cloudinn/concourse-hangouts-resource
      tag: latest
      post_url: true

resources:
- name: hangouts
  type: hangouts-resource
  source:
    webhook_url: ((hangouts_webhook))
    post_url: true

  # .
  # .
  # .
  # Some other resources
  # .
  # .
  # .


jobs:
  - name: some-job
    serial: true
    plan:
      - try:
          put: hangouts
          params:
            message: Build Started !

      # .
      # .
      # .
      # Some steps to execute
      # .
      # .
      # .

    on_failure:
      try:
        put: hangouts
        params:
          message: Build Failed !

    on_success:
      try:
        put: hangouts
        params:
          message: Build Successed !

License

BSD 2-Clause