Using Slack and AWS EventBridge to Automate Your DevOps Tasks

48mAdvanced2020-09-17

Authors

Carlos Rivas

AWS Infrastructure Expert

Course details

Communication and collaboration are key to successful DevOps. Amazon EventBridge allows developers to easily create end-to-end integrations between AWS and popular third-party tools like Slack. Imagine communicating with fellow developers, testers, and sys admins; monitoring AWS processes; and automating manual tasks—all in one place. This project-based course shows how to use EventBridge to architect serverless AWS app integrations with tools like Slack. Learn how to create a custom Slack app and fetch and post data via the Slack API. Then find out how to create an AWS pipeline for monitoring and communicating code changes in your Slack channel, and use messages to automatically trigger events—such as a CI/CD workflow—using EventBridge, CodePipeline, API Gateway, and Lambda functions. Instructor Carlos Rivas—a Certified AWS Solutions Architect—leaves you with some ideas to expand the code and customize it to the needs of your own DevOps team.

Topics include:
Designing your project architecture
Creating a Slack app
Posting messages from AWS to the Slack app
Creating an AWS CodePipeline project for monitoring
Writing Lambda functions
Reacting to events sent from Slack
Executing a CI/CD pipeline from Slack

Skills covered

IT AutomationDevOps FoundationsAdvancedAmazon Web Services (AWS)AmazonDevOpsCloud ServicesCloud PlatformsNetwork and System AdministrationCloud Computing

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - EventBridge for your AWS app integrations

1. EventBridge Project Architecture

02 - What's an enterprise service bus
03 - Why use AWS EventBridge
04 - Challenge - Design an architecture using an EventBus
05 - Solution - Design an architecture using an EventBus

2. Creating a Slack App

06 - Setting up Slack for your DevOps automated messages
07 - Create a Slack app and add it to your workspace
08 - Using the Slack API to post mesages from AWS
09 - Challenge - HTTP POST to the Slack API
10 - Solution - HTTP POST to the Slack API

3. Creating Your AWS CodePipeline

11 - Creating an AWS CodePipeline project for monitoring
12 - Writing a Lambda for EventBridge
13 - Monitoring code changes with EventBridge and Slack
14 - Challenge - Monitoring pipeline status
15 - Solution - Monitoring pipeline status

4. Slack Integration Using EventBridge

16 - Using EventBridge to automate tasks without writing code
17 - Reacting to events sent from Slack to AWS
18 - Configuring an HTTP endpoint to run your Lambda code
19 - Executing your CI CD pipeline from Slack

Conclusion

20 - Next steps