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How do I setup notifications from MyST?

MyST Notifications

The DevOps Feedback Loop

The "feedback loop" is a vital part of any DevOps toolchain. The "feedback loop" is how teams can be proactively notified when changes are happening to infrastructure or code and also when actions need to be taken such as fixing a deployment or test failure. MyST provides a feedback loop through it's sophisticated support for event notifications.

MyST supports two types of notifications

Default Notifications
Custom Notifications

Default Notifications

MyST has a default email notification mechanism. When enabled, MyST users will receive notifications for significant events such as when they are required to approval or perform an Application Release.

Configuring Email Notification via fc-configuration.properties

To configure via the fc-configuration.properties, update /usr/local/tomcat/conf/fusioncloud/fc-configuration.properties with the following.

smtp.user.name=<email>
smtp.password=<password>
smtp.host=smtp.gmail.com
smtp.port=587

Once MyST is restarted, the password in the file will be automatically encrypted and the Email notification sender will be configured. If the configuration details are incorrect, you will see a related exception in the MyST log.

Configuring Email Notification via the REST API

MyST provides an API for establishing the one-time email notification configuration. To interact with the MyST REST API, an API key must first be obtained.

Retrieve API key from MyST Studio console

Login to MyST Studio with an administrator account
Click on "Administration" then select "Users"
Under the MySTAdministrator (API User) click on drop-down and select "Show API Key"
Copy the key, we will use this later in our MyST workspace. If you want, you can generate a new key at any time.

Get current configuration

Set MYST_TOKEN as an environment variable containing the MyST Studio API Key and MYST_HOST as an environment variable containing the MyST host.

Run the following

MYST_HOST=<YOUR_MYST_HOST>
MYST_TOKEN=<YOUR_MYST_API_TOKEN>

curl -k https://${MYST_HOST}/api/v1/administration/configuration/properties \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${MYST_TOKEN}" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json'

This should output something similar to the following:

{
  "data": {
    "fc.host.address": "localhost",
    "fc.quiet_period_sec.platform_instance": "15",
    "fc.quiet_period_sec.release_pipeline": "60",
    "fc.port": "8085",
    "fc.oauth.endpoint": "http://localhost:8080/security"
  },
  "meta": {
    "status": "SUCCESS",
    "code": "0",
    "timeStamp": "2018-07-06 03:44:15.019 +0000"
  }
}

Apply email configuration

MYST_HOST=<YOUR_MYST_HOST>
MYST_TOKEN=<YOUR_MYST_API_TOKEN>

curl -X PATCH -k https://${MYST_HOST}/api/v1/administration/configuration/properties \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${MYST_TOKEN}" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "smtp.user.name": "<email>",
    "smtp.password": "<password>",
    "smtp.host": "smtp.gmail.com",
    "smtp.port": "587"
  }'

Custom Notifications

MyST Custom Actions provide a simple but powerful event notification mechanism.

Below are some examples of custom notifications that can be achieved in MyST:

When provisioning fails, I want to be notified
When provisioning succeeds, I want to update a JIRA ticket
When I am deploying, I want to tell everyone on Slack

Although MyST Custom Actions can be great for triggering notifications at various stages in a platform or application lifecycle, it should be noted that they can be really used for any action. Basically, a custom action allows for to say

When MyST does X, I want it to also do Y...

When using a MyST Custom Action for the purpose of notifications, we write a small function in Python, Java or Jython (i.e. Python which runs in the JVM and has access to Java libraries).

MyST allows for the execution of Custom Actions in the event of a failure or success of a Core MyST Action. This can be a useful way to establish notification to other services such as Email and Slack.

Working Example: Slack Notifications from MyST

Below is a working example of establishing slack notifications from MyST. Before working through these steps, please make sure you are on version 5.8.6 or later.

Create an API token in Slack. We will use this later to connect from MyST.
From MyST Studio, create two new custom actions.
- slack-info-notification
  - Target Location: ext/targets/jython/slack-info-notification.py
  - Resource Type: Jython Action
  - Description: Notify Slack - ERROR Message
  - Content: See below sample code
- slack-error-notification
  - Target Location: ext/targets/jython/slack-error-notification.py
  - Resource Type: Jython Action
  - Description: Notify Slack - ERROR Message
  - Content: See below sample code
Add the following Global Variables to any blueprint that you want to enable notifications on
- myst.action-on-failure=slack-error-notification
- action.deploy.post=slack-info-notification
- action.update.post=slack-info-notification
- action.provision.post=slack-info-notification
- slack.token.password=OMITTED
Once the global variables are applied in any platform instance, notifications will be enabled for any action failure and for success of a deploy, update and provision action.

Sample Code

Be sure to replace the hardcoded channel below with the actual identifier.

MyST Info Notification to Slack

import os
def myst(cfg):
 action_name=cfg.configuration.getRequest().getAction()
 message = action_name.capitalize() + " success on " + cfg['internal.admin.url']
 os.system("curl -X POST -H 'Authorization: Bearer "+ cfg['slack.token.password'] +"' -H 'Content-type: application/json' --data '{\"channel\":\"G8F3FN40J\",\"text\":\""+message+"\",\"username\":\"MyST slack bot\"}' https://slack.com/api/chat.postMessage")

MyST Error Notification to Slack

import os
def myst(cfg):
 action_name=cfg.configuration.getRequest().getAction()
 message = "ERROR: " + action_name.capitalize() + " failed on " + cfg['internal.admin.url']
 os.system("curl -X POST -H 'Authorization: Bearer " + cfg['slack.token.password'] + "' -H 'Content-type: application/json' --data '{\"channel\":\"G8F3FN40J\",\"text\":\""+message+"\",\"username\":\"MyST slack bot\"}' https://slack.com/api/chat.postMessage")

How do I setup notifications from MyST?