Isaacwhyuenac/openresty-nginx-lua-send-slack-message

OpenResty Slack

This repo demonstrates how to send slack messages through nginx if a webhook (eg. from git-sync) is received. To achieve this, OpenResty, a nginx distribution with lua at its heart, is used.

Tech Stack

• OpenResty

• OpenResty Docker

• Lua

• Slack

• Leafo - Full Documentation of how to install and manage Lua package through Luarocks

• Great YouTube Channel to learn more about Lua

Nginx

For nginx configuration, you can put different form of configurations files on different locations dependent on your use cases.

• If you only need the server context directives, you can put the config files inside the /etc/nginx/conf.d/<anyname>.conf
• If you need a ground-up change on nginx config, you have to create a brand-new nginx.conf file on /usr/local/openresty/nginx/conf/nginx.conf(may vary on different linux distro).

Commands

To build the OpenResty docker image on DEBUG mode on stdout

  docker build . -t nginx-test --build-arg RESTY_RPM_FLAVOR="-debug"
  docker run --rm --name mycontainer -p 8000:80 nginx-test

Full Nginx conf

If you need to update your full nginx conf, you can look at full folder

Server Context Nginx conf

if you need to add just a portion of nginx conf (eg. the server context), you can look at server-context