Rocket.Chat

Parameters

The Rocket.Chat notification service configuration includes following settings:

• email - the Rocker.Chat user’s SAMAccountName
• password - the Rocker.Chat user’s password
• alias - optional alias that should be used to post message
• icon - optional message icon
• avatar - optional message avatar
• serverUrl - optional Rocket.Chat server url

Configuration

1. Login to your RocketChat instance
2. Go to user management

1. Add new user with bot role. Also note that Require password change checkbox mus be not checked

1. Copy username and password that you was created for bot user
2. Create a public or private channel, or a team, for this example my_channel
3. Add your bot to this channel otherwise it won’t work
4. Store email and password in argocd-notifications-secret Secret

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: <secret-name>
stringData:
  rocketchat-email: <email>
  rocketchat-password: <password>

1. Finally, use these credentials to configure the RocketChat integration in the argocd-configmap config map:

apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: argocd-notifications-cm
data:
  service.rocketchat: |
    email: $rocketchat-email
    password: $rocketchat-password

1. Create a subscription for your Rocket.Chat integration:

Note: channel, team or user must be prefixed with # or @ elsewhere we will be interpretative destination as a room ID

apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
kind: Application
metadata:
  annotations:
    notifications.argoproj.io/subscribe.on-sync-succeeded.rocketchat: #my_channel

Templates

Notification templates can be customized with RocketChat attachments.

Note: Attachments structure in Rocketchat is same with Slack attachments feature.

The message attachments can be specified in attachments string fields under rocketchat field:

template.app-sync-status: |
  message: |
    Application {{.app.metadata.name}} sync is {{.app.status.sync.status}}.
    Application details: {{.context.argocdUrl}}/applications/{{.app.metadata.name}}.
  rocketchat:
    attachments: |
      [{
        "title": "{{.app.metadata.name}}",
        "title_link": "{{.context.argocdUrl}}/applications/{{.app.metadata.name}}",
        "color": "#18be52",
        "fields": [{
          "title": "Sync Status",
          "value": "{{.app.status.sync.status}}",
          "short": true
        }, {
          "title": "Repository",
          "value": "{{.app.spec.source.repoURL}}",
          "short": true
        }]
      }]