Post Workflow Status To Slack

This action sends message to slack based on Job Status. Gihub action sets the value for Job Status i.e. ${{ job.status }} based on whether step succeeded/failed/cancelled.

Possible values assinged to job status are follows:

1. Success
2. Failure
3. Cancelled

This action sends message using Slack bot tokens.

Inputs

job-status

(Required) The {{ job.status }} used to decide slack message content i.e. status, color

Status	Color Hex	Color Name
Success	#00FF00	Pure Lime Green
Failure	#FF0000	Pure Red
Cancelled	#EE6F47	Bright Red

slack-bot-token

(Required) The slack bot token required to post slack message

channel

(Required) Slack channel where job status message will be posted

Usage

Here's an example of a workflow which has two jobs:

1. success-notification: Sends job succeeded message to github-actions-test slack channel

2. failure-notification: Sends job failed message to github-actions-test slack channel

name: Test

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  success-notification:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - run: exit 0
      - name: Slack Success
        if: always()
        uses: kpritam/slack-job-status-action@v1
        with:
          job-status: ${{ job.status }}
          slack-bot-token: ${{ secrets.SLACK_BOT_TOKEN }}
          channel: github-actions-test

  failure-notification:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - run: exit 1
      - name: Slack Failure
        if: always()
        uses: kpritam/slack-job-status-action@v1
        with:
          job-status: ${{ job.status }}
          slack-bot-token: ${{ secrets.SLACK_BOT_TOKEN }}
          channel: github-actions-test

Slack message for build success or failure would look like this:

Slack Bot Setup

This action is inspired from slack-action, follow instruction here for setting up slack bot.