When CodePipeline reaches the approval stage, it sends a notification to Amazon SNS, which triggers an AWS Lambda function (ApprovalRequester). You’ll also need to build a Slack app with webhooks and interactive components, write two Lambda functions, and create an API Gateway API and a SNS topic.Īs you’ll see in the following diagram, when I make a change and merge a new feature into the master branch in AWS CodeCommit, the check-in kicks off my CI/CD pipeline in AWS CodePipeline. After the pipeline is created, you will need to add a manual approval stage.

AWS CodeStar will create a pipeline with an AWS CodeCommit repository and an AWS CodeDeploy deployment for you. Go to the AWS CodeStar console and select the Static Website template (shown in the screenshot). If you don’t have a pipeline, the fastest way to create one for this use case is to use AWS CodeStar. To follow along with the steps in this post, you’ll need a pipeline in AWS CodePipeline. I use an interactive message button and incoming webhook to promote a stage with a single click. In this blog post, I will show you how to integrate AWS services with a Slack application. And because the promotion happens through a Slack channel, the whole development team knows what’s happening without checking email. Using Slack in a ChatOps collaboration model, the promotion can be done in a single click from a Slack channel.

Typically, when a build has been tested and is ready to be promoted to a staging environment, a QA engineer or DevOps engineer kicks off the deployment. Slack is widely used by DevOps and development teams to communicate status.

Slack channel webhook