deployments-tracking-bot

Bot for tracking new deployments on DigitalOcean and sending notifications to messengers (at the moment, only Telegram available).

Installation

1. Fork this repository to your folder
2. Talk to @BotFather and go through some dialog options until you've successfully created a bot. You should receive a token in the format of 123456789:blablabla
3. Copy .env.example to .env
4. Edit .env by changing the environment variables (see below)
5. Run the project with cargo run

Environment Variables

Work configuration

• WORK_INTERVAL - how often to check in seconds. The recommended range is 15-60 seconds.

DigitalOcean configuration

• DO_TOKEN - You can generate an OAuth token by visiting the Applications & API section of the DigitalOcean control panel for your account. Set scope to READ only value.

Database configuration

• DB_PATH - the folder where the database will be located

Messages configuration

• MSG_PATH - message template folder

Telegram configuration

• TG_TOKEN - the token you received when you created the bot
• TG_CHAT_ID - the ID of the chat you added the bot to (see below).

Logging

• LOG_SHOW_DATETIME - set to true if you want the time and date to be displayed in the logs, false if you don't.
• LOG_LEVEL - log level. Recommended values: debug for debugging and info for working in production.

How to get the ID of a chat in Telegram for TG_CHAT_ID environment variable

1. Make a request to the following URL (use the token you received when you created the bot):

https://api.telegram.org/bot<token>/getUpdates

The API response should look something like this:

{
ok: true,
result: [
{
update_id: 805747995,
my_chat_member: {
chat: {
id: -123456789,
title: "Some Title",
type: "group",
all_members_are_administrators: true
},
...

Where you will find the chat id you need.