Sending alerts about results of deployment to Telegram chat.

Are you familiar with situation when your deploy process takes several minutes and you're refreshing your page with workflows waiting for ✅ ? With that feature you'll be notified about result of deployment right in Telegram.

Prerequirements

I expect you to have:

• telegram bot with TELEGRAM_TOKEN
• some GitHub Actions scripts for deploying your code

Set up secrets of your repository

1. Go to repository
2. Settings
3. Press New repository secret
4. Type ALERTING_TELEGRAM_TOKEN in name
5. Type your TELEGRAM_TOKEN from telegram bot into value field.
6. Press Add secret
7. Add TELEGRAM_LOG_CHAT_ID the same way and put telegram chat id of yourself or of your log chat, where log messages will be sent to.
   

New .yml file in .github/workflows

To receive alerts, we need to create new .yml file, which be executed after our deployment.
So, let's create file, for example, tg_alert.yml in .github/workflows folder with following content:

Basically, it means following:

1. Look at result of deploy workflow after its completing
2. If success, then send Successfully deployed 👍✅ to TELEGRAM_LOG_CHAT_ID
3. Else, send Failed to deploy 👎❌

As a result you will get this:

Voilà 🥳

You're receiving telegram alerts after your deployment