cfn-news-to-telegram

Send Cloudformation feature releases to Telegram in a private chat on a weekly basis.

To deploy: pipenv run bash deploy-cfn-news.sh. This script leverages both AWS CLI and sceptre. (Use of sceptre is optional)

Deploying via the Serverless Repo

Enter a Telegram bot token and a chat ID (group ID or your own user)

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Deploying via sceptre

It expects the following parameters available in Systems Manager Parameter store:

• default-sam-bucket: The S3 bucket that AWS CLI requires to upload the packaged cloudformation template.
• bot-token: The bot token for your bot.
• /cfn-news-to-telegram/chat-id: The user or group chat ID to whom to send the events.

Note that you must add the bot to the group that you specified while deploying, otherwise the bot will not have permission to send you messages.