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Sending notifications via webhooks

It is possible to send notifications to external systems whenever an apply is being done.

You can make requests to any HTTP endpoint or send messages directly to your Slack channel.

NOTE

Currently only apply events are supported.

Configuration

Webhooks are configured in Atlantis server-side configuration. There can be many webhooks: sending notifications to different destinations or for different workspaces/branches. Here is example configuration to send Slack messages for every apply:

yaml
webhooks:
- event: apply
  kind: slack
  channel: my-channel-id

If you are deploying Atlantis as a Helm chart, this can be implemented via the config parameter available for chart customizations:

yaml
## Use Server Side Config,
## ref: https://www.runatlantis.io/docs/server-configuration.html
config: |
   ---
   webhooks:
     - event: apply
       kind: slack
       channel: my-channel-id

Filter on workspace/branch

To limit notifications to particular workspaces or branches, use workspace-regex or branch-regex parameters. If the workspace and branch matches respective regex, an event will be sent. Note that empty regular expression (a result of unset parameter) matches every string.

Using HTTP webhooks

You can send POST requests with JSON payload to any HTTP/HTTPS server.

Configuring Atlantis

In your Atlantis server-side configuration you can add the following:

yaml
webhooks:
- event: apply
  kind: http
  url: https://example.com/hooks

The apply event information will be POSTed to https://example.com/hooks.

You can supply any additional headers with --webhook-http-headers parameter (or environment variable), for example for authentication purposes. See webhook-http-headers for details.

JSON payload

The payload is a JSON-marshalled ApplyResult struct.

Example payload:

json
{
  "Workspace": "default",
  "Repo": {
    "FullName": "octocat/Hello-World",
    "Owner": "octocat",
    "Name": "Hello-World",
    "CloneURL": "https://:@github.com/octocat/Hello-World.git",
    "SanitizedCloneURL": "https://:<redacted>@github.com/octocat/Hello-World.git",
    "VCSHost": {
      "Hostname": "github.com",
      "Type": 0
    }
  },
  "Pull": {
    "Num": 2137,
    "HeadCommit": "7fd1a60b01f91b314f59955a4e4d4e80d8edf11d",
    "URL": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/2137",
    "HeadBranch": "feature/some-branch",
    "BaseBranch": "main",
    "Author": "octocat",
    "State": 0,
    "BaseRepo": {
      "FullName": "octocat/Hello-World",
      "Owner": "octocat",
      "Name": "Hello-World",
      "CloneURL": "https://:@github.com/octocat/Hello-World.git",
      "SanitizedCloneURL": "https://:<redacted>@github.com/octocat/Hello-World.git",
      "VCSHost": {
        "Hostname": "github.com",
        "Type": 0
      }
    }
  },
  "User": {
    "Username": "octocat",
    "Teams": null
  },
  "Success": true,
  "Directory": "terraform/example", 
  "ProjectName": "example-project"
}

Using Slack hooks

For this you'll need to:

  • Create a Bot user in Slack
  • Configure Atlantis to send notifications to Slack.

Configuring Slack for Atlantis

  • Go to Slack: Apps
  • Click the Create New App button
  • Select From scratch in the dialog that opens
  • Give it a name, e.g. atlantis-bot.
  • Select your Slack workspace
  • Click Create App
  • On the left go to oAuth & Permissions
  • Scroll down to Scopes | Bot Token Scopes and add the following OAuth scopes:
    • channels:read
    • chat:write
    • groups:read
    • incoming-webhook
    • mpim:read
  • Install the app onto your Slack workspace
  • Copy the Bot User OAuth Token and provide it to Atlantis by using --slack-token=xoxb-xxxxxxxxxxx or via the environment ATLANTIS_SLACK_TOKEN=xoxb-xxxxxxxxxxx.
  • Create a channel in your Slack workspace (e.g. my-channel) or use existing
  • Add the app to Created channel or existing channel ( click channel name then tab integrations, there Click "Add apps"

Configuring Atlantis

After following the above steps it is time to configure Atlantis. Assuming you have already provided the slack-token (via parameter or environment variable) you can now instruct Atlantis to send apply events to Slack.

In your Atlantis server-side configuration you can now add the following:

yaml
webhooks:
- event: apply
  kind: slack
  channel: my-channel-id

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