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How to wire up a webhook using powershell after a successful web deployment?

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Pure Krome

09 Oct, 2017 12:34 AM

Hi AV :)

So I'm trying to figure out how to use powershell to call a webhook when the webdeploy step was successful.

Checking the docs, it looks like I can use the deployment_success or on_success steps.

Now, these are the questions I'm not sure about:

1. Can this only occur on a specific branch? E.g. when we do a master build/deploy?

I was thinking something like this..

for:
-
  branches:
    only:
      - dev

    <snipped>

-
  branches:
    only:
      - master

  configuration: Release  
  deploy:
    - provider: WebDeploy
      <snipped>

  deployment_success:
    - ps: <something here>

1. We're playing around with using RETRACE by STACKIFY for our code insights/metrics. They have the ability for us to 'tag' when we deploy, so we can see which code metrics are for build #1 vs build #2, etc. To do this, they have a provided API and provided a full powershell script file. Now, I'm not sure where we should put this file and how to call this file from appveyor.yml.

Lets assume it's in a folder called scripts in our ROOT github repo folder. the file is called stackify-deploy.ps1 ... how do we call it?

here's the example they give us ...

ps > .\stackify-deploy.ps1 complete -apiKey "SUN98aIxmzZUkUX8BYNsybDcxJctxEuYjHCKX9M0jo" -app \"FooApp\" -env \"Prod\" -version "v1.0" -name \"BourneAgain\" -branch "master" -commit "ca35857d2cc6050a2525491840922a6d5d359006" -uri "localhost"

of course:

• -apikeyis a secure environment variable i'll setup
• -version is the appveyor version variable
• -branch is the appveyor branch variable
• -commit is the appveyor commit variable
• -uri ... no idea what this optional setting is. will get more info on this.

So .. if I place the .ps1 file is found at \scripts\stackfiy-deploy.ps1 ... how can I use it please?

1. 1 Posted by Ilya Finkelshte... on 10 Oct, 2017 10:37 PM

   

   Hi,

   • Best place for you to put that script is after_deploy script

   • You do not need that complexity in yaml. just use APPVEYOR_REPO_BRANCH environment variable to condition it.

   • It can look like this:

   after_deploy:
   - ps: IF ($env:APPVEYOR_REPO_BRANCH -eq "master") {.\scripts\stackfiy-deploy.ps1 complete -apiKey $env:api_key <snipped>}
   

   this assumes that you do not do CD command and change current directory. Otherwise you can use more reliable path like $env:APPVEYOR_BUILD_FOLDER\scripts\stackfiy-deploy.ps1

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2. 2 Posted by Pure Krome on 10 Oct, 2017 10:43 PM

   

   Thanks @Ilya! That's great stuff :)

   also, is it IF or if (all upper or all lower case) ?

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3. 3 Posted by Ilya Finkelshte... on 10 Oct, 2017 11:16 PM

   

   It is not case sensitive, use what you prefer :)

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4. Ilya Finkelshteyn closed this discussion on 25 Aug, 2018 02:20 AM.