Simple Slack Handler Cookbook

A handler to report run failures to slack with minimal gem dependencies Platforms

Any platform should be fine since the recipe is nearly pure ruby but these are the tested platforms thus far:

• Windows
• Ubuntu

Cookbooks

The following cookbooks are dependencies:

• chef_handler

Recipes

default

Installs and activates the simple slack handler at compile time.

Usage

1. configure the following attributes

# required attributes

default['handler']['slack']['channel'] = '#channel'

default['handler']['slack']['token'] = 'SLACK_API_KEY'

# optional attributes

default['handler']['slack']['username'] = 'Simple Slack Handler'

default['handler']['slack']['icon_emoji'] = ':rotating_light:'

2. add the default recipe to the start of your runlist