Real-Time Productivity: Empower Jenkins with Seamless Slack Notifications

Step 1:

Launch an Ubuntu(22.04) t2.large instance

Install Jenkins on it.

To install Jenkins : Click here

Once Jenkins is up and running, you can access it by navigating to your EC2 instance’s public IP address followed by port 8080.

To get the password, type the following command,

sudo cat /var/lib/jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword

Step 2:

Create a channel Named Jenkins

Step 3:

Install the Jenkins CI app on Slack

Goto Settings & administration -> Manage apps and search Jenkins CI

Click on Add to Slack

Now choose your Slack channel and click on Add Jenkins CI integration

You will be redirected to new page

Follow the steps as described in the page to integrate slack with jenkins

Step 4:

Go to Jenkins Dashboard

Install Slack Notification plugin

Now go to Manage Jenkins –> Credentials –> Global

Select kind as Secret Text and provide your Slack integration token credential ID

Now click on Manage Jenkins again in the left navigation and then go to Configure system. Find the Slack section and add the following values:

Click on Test Connection

Click on Apply and Save

Step 5:

Now create a new Pipeline job and add this to the pipeline

def COLOR_MAP = [
    'FAILURE' : 'danger',
    'SUCCESS' : 'good'
]
pipeline{
    agent any
    stages {
        stage('Hello'){
            steps{
                echo "Hello world"
            }
        }
  }
post {
    always {
        echo 'Slack Notifications'
        slackSend (
            channel: '#channel name',   #change your channel name
            color: COLOR_MAP[currentBuild.currentResult],
            message: "*${currentBuild.currentResult}:* Job ${env.JOB_NAME} \n build ${env.BUILD_NUMBER} \n More info at: ${env.BUILD_URL}"
        )
    }
}
}

You will get a Notification in Slack