Using Slack and AWS EventBridge to Automate Your DevOps Tasks

Learn how to use EventBridge to integrate third-party apps, such as Slack, with AWS for better communication, collaboration, and even automation of DevOps tasks.

Introduction

• EventBridge for your AWS app integrations

1. EventBridge Project Architecture

• What's an enterprise service bus?
• Why use AWS EventBridge
• Challenge: Design an architecture using an EventBus
• Solution: Design an architecture using an EventBus

2. Creating a Slack App

• Setting up Slack for your DevOps automated messages
• Create a Slack app and add it to your workspace
• Using the Slack API to post mesages from AWS
• Challenge: HTTP POST to the Slack API
• Solution: HTTP POST to the Slack API

3. Creating Your AWS CodePipeline

• Creating an AWS CodePipeline project for monitoring
• Writing a Lambda for EventBridge
• Monitoring code changes with EventBridge and Slack
• Challenge: Monitoring pipeline status
• Solution: Monitoring pipeline status

4. Slack Integration Using EventBridge

• Using EventBridge to automate tasks without writing code
• Reacting to events sent from Slack to AWS
• Configuring an HTTP endpoint to run your Lambda code
• Executing your CI/CD pipeline from Slack

Conclusion

• Next steps