Better Jenkins Notifications in Declarative Pipelines

I’ve been using declarative pipelines in Jenkins for a while with the Slack plugin to send build notifications to Slack. The plugin does what it says on the tin but gives you a pretty boring message by default. ![E8F315D1-04A6-4DC4-B0D8-1E1E7ED42D08.png]({{ site.url }}/assets/img/e8f315d1-04a6-4dc4-b0d8-1e1e7ed42d08.png) I used the environment variables available in the pipeline to make things a little bit better and link back to the job. ![08A97422-A7E2-4AB5-A65B-68EF7B5AE196.png]({{ site.url }}/assets/img/08a97422-a7e2-4ab5-a65b-68ef7b5ae196.png) But I was still always disappointed the notifications didn’t contain more information. Thankfully version 2.3 of the plugin added support for the attachments portion of the Slack message API. I was able to leverage the attachments feature to get better message formatting. Meanwhile, I took some inspiration from this thread to incorporate test result summaries. ...

February 9, 2018 · 1 min · dschaaff