herald

Notify someone from some place about your success

Install

go install github.com/fullpipe/herald@latest

Usage

herald help

For example we want to notify grafana from local git repository

export GRAFANA_API_KEY=abirvalg

herald git grafana \
    --host https://grafana.example.com:3000 \
    --api-key ${GRAFANA_API_KEY} \
    --tag TASK-123 --tag release --tag foo-project \

# or you could modify message
herald git grafana \
    --host https://grafana.example.com:3000 \
    --api-key ${GRAFANA_API_KEY} \
    --tag TASK-123 --tag release --tag foo-project \
    -m "Project {{.project}} deployed. Going home."

Add anotations	Feel the difference

Places

Place tries to generate project metadata if possible. You could find available place options by herald PLACE help

Place	Description
nowhere	set meta as you want
git	reads meta from local git repository
gitlab	reads meta from gitlab ci env vars

Metadata

You could use metadata in message templates. For example:

Project {{.project}} deployed

Project: {{ or .project "none"}}
URL: {{ or .url "none"}}
Branch: {{ or .branch "none"}}
CommitSHA: {{ or .sha "none"}}
Author: {{ or .author "none"}}

Targets

It's where you will see your success. You could find available target options by herald nowhere TARGET --help.

Target	Description	Required options
cli	just prints out to your terminal
grafana	creates grafana annotation with tags	--host, --api-key
slack	send message to Slack channel	--webhook

TODO:

• ci
• wrap in docker container
• error handling
• lint
• commit message as meta.Description?
• more targets
  • telegram
  • ...
• more places
  • github actions
  • ...