Slack - task integration
Millions of people use Slack daily to collaborate and communicate across teams. With Cutover, you can post messages to Slack. This can be used to update colleagues on progress and create awareness of your runbook.
What can the Slack Integration do?
With Cutover, you can post messages to Slack. There is a specific task type associated with sending a Slack message and this is identified in Cutover by the Slack Icon associated with the task. The message and channel can be viewed in the task’s detail. When the task is started the status of the message being sent can be seen.
Enter the key details to set up the task
What information does it need from a user?
It’s as simple as including the channel you want to send the message to, and the message itself. When the task starts, this message is sent to the specified channel.
Prerequisites and setup requirements
You only need to set up the installation with Slack once (this takes 5 minutes). In order to use the Slack integration for Cutover, you need to create a Slack App with permission to post to the channels you want to post to (chat:post.public). Once this is done you need to provide your OAuth token to Cutover.
What is the architecture?
Cutover will send a message directly to your Slack channel using Slack’s Web API.
How is it secure?
This Cutover service can connect directly to Slack. If needed, individual user OAuth tokens can be used.
FAQs
Can the Slack integration send to multiple channels?
Yes, in order to send to multiple channels, you need to create a task per channel. To do this, you need the scope to be set up to allow for posting to all required channels.
Can the slack integration post to private / public / broadcast channels?
Yes, to do this, just enable the slack integration to allow for posting to all required channels.
Does this integration run in rehearsal?
This integration does not run in rehearsal by default
What are the states of the Slack integration?
A task associated with a Slack channel has three states:
- Message sending
- Message sent
- Connection failed
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