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terraform-aws-ecs-events-to-slack

Rules for Amazon EventBridge that fetch ECS events and send them to Slack

Example

module "ecs_to_slack" {
  source            = "git::https://github.com/fivexl/terraform-aws-ecs-events-to-slack.git"
  name              = "ecs-to-slack"
  slack_webhook_url = "https://hooks.slack.com/YOUR-WEBHOOK-ID"
}

You can find more examples in the examples/ directory

Info

• Amazon ECS events
• Handling events with Lambda
• EventBridge Patterns

AWS Terraform provier versions

• version 0.1.2 is the last version that works with both Terraform AWS provider v3 and v4. There are no plans to update 0.1.X branch.
• all versions later (0.2.0 and above) require Terraform AWS provider v4 as a baseline

Requirements

Name	Version
terraform	>= 0.13.1
aws	>= 3.69

Providers

Name	Version
aws	>= 3.69

Modules

Name	Source	Version
slack_notifications	terraform-aws-modules/lambda/aws	5.0.0

Resources

Name	Type
aws_cloudwatch_event_rule.this	resource
aws_cloudwatch_event_target.this	resource
aws_caller_identity.current	data source
aws_region.current	data source

Inputs

Name	Description	Type	Default	Required
cloudwatch_logs_retention_in_days	Specifies the number of days you want to retain log events in the specified log group. Possible values are: 1, 3, 5, 7, 14, 30, 60, 90, 120, 150, 180, 365, 400, 545, 731, 1827, and 3653.	number	14	no
custom_event_rules	A map of objects representing the custom EventBridge rule which will be created in addition to the default rules.	any	{}	no
ecs_deployment_state_event_rule_detail	The content of the detail section in the EvenBridge Rule for ECS Deployment State Change events. Use it to filter the events which will be processed and sent to Slack.	any	{ "eventType": [ "ERROR" ] }	no
ecs_service_action_event_rule_detail	The content of the detail section in the EvenBridge Rule for ECS Service Action events. Use it to filter the events which will be processed and sent to Slack.	any	{ "eventType": [ "WARN", "ERROR" ] }	no
ecs_task_state_event_rule_detail	The content of the detail section in the EvenBridge Rule for ECS Task State Change events. Use it to filter the events which will be processed and sent to Slack.	any	{ "lastStatus": [ "STOPPED" ], "stoppedReason": [ { "anything-but": { "prefix": "Scaling activity initiated by (deployment ecs-svc/" } } ] }	no
enable_ecs_deployment_state_event_rule	The boolean flag enabling the EvenBridge Rule for ECS Deployment State Change events. The detail section of this rule is configured with ecs_deployment_state_event_rule_detail variable.	bool	true	no
enable_ecs_service_action_event_rule	The boolean flag enabling the EvenBridge Rule for ECS Service Action events. The detail section of this rule is configured with ecs_service_action_event_rule_detail variable.	bool	true	no
enable_ecs_task_state_event_rule	The boolean flag enabling the EvenBridge Rule for ECS Task State Change events. The detail section of this rule is configured with ecs_task_state_event_rule_detail variable.	bool	true	no
lambda_memory_size	Amount of memory in MB your Lambda Function can use at runtime. Valid value between 128 MB to 10,240 MB (10 GB), in 64 MB increments.	number	256	no
name	The string which will be used for the name of AWS Lambda function and other creaated resources	string	n/a	yes
recreate_missing_package	Whether to recreate missing Lambda package if it is missing locally or not.	bool	true	no
role_name	The string which will be used for the name of Lambda IAM role	string	null	no
slack_webhook_url	(default) A Slack incoming webhook URL. (if slack_webhook_url_source_type is 'secret') A secretsmanager secret name.	string	n/a	yes
slack_webhook_url_source_type	Define where to get the slack webhook URL for variable slack_webhook_url. Either as text input or from an AWS secretsmanager lookup	string	"text"	no
tags	A map of tags to add to all resources	map(string)	{}	no

Outputs

No outputs.