sumeet / slashdeploy

GitHub Deployments for Slack

SlashDeploy

SlashDeploy is a web app for triggering GitHub Deployments via a /deploy command in Slack.

Installation

SlashDeploy is already hosted at https://slashdeploy.io. All you have to do is add it to your Slack team:

Usage

Deploy a repository to the default environment (production):

/deploy ejholmes/acme-inc

Deploy a repository to a specific environment:

/deploy ejholmes/acme-inc to staging

Deploy a branch:

/deploy ejholmes/acme-inc@topic-branch to staging

And more at https://slashdeploy.io/docs.

Development

SlashDeploy requires PostgreSQL; you can install it through Homebrew on OSX and apt-get on Linux.

Using ngrok

1. Install ngrok and run ./ngrok http 3000
2. Create a Slack App, set your Slack Redirect URI to http://xxx.ngrok.io/auth/slack/callback and set your Interactive Messages Request URL to https://xxx.ngrok.io/slack/actions
3. Listen to /deploy commands by setting the Request URL to https://xxx.ngrok.io/slack/commands
4. Register a new Github OAuth application
5. Set your Github Authorization callback URL to http://xxx.ngrok.io/auth/github/callback
6. Using Slack and Github app credentials, set the following environment variables in a .env file:

• GITHUB_CLIENT (set to github to use the actual client, a fake one is set otherwise)
• SLACK_CLIENT (set to slack to use the actual client, a fake one is set otherwise)
• GITHUB_CLIENT_ID
• GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET
• SLACK_CLIENT_ID
• SLACK_CLIENT_SECRET
• SLACK_VERIFICATION_TOKEN
• STATE_KEY

7. foreman start -p 3000
8. Create a Slack team and add SlashDeploy to it using the button on http://localhost:3000

Tests

The full test suite can be run with:

$ ./bin/rake

Error Logging

To have errors get reported to Rollbar, set an environment variable ROLLBAR_ACCESS_TOKEN.