This sample demonstrates how to use webhooks within the IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) to send notifications or data to external systems whenever the following events occur:
- When actions that are related to the decision governance framework happen in Decision Center, for example when a user creates a release, or approves an activity.
- When a deployment ends, you are notified of its status: completed, failed, or aborted.
- When a user creates or updates a rule or a decision table.
Webhooks allow for real-time data sharing and integration, making it easier to trigger actions or workflows in other applications.
In this sample, you will learn how to configure and use the Webhook Notifier to send notifications:
- either to a Slack channel,
- or to a Node.js server which records the notifications into log files.
Before you begin, ensure you have the following:
- Container Platform: Docker 24.0.x or Kubernetes 1.27+.
This NodeJS sample code will be packaged in two docker images.
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Navigate to the Slack webhook sample directory:
cd decisioncenter/webhooknotifier -
Edit the endPoints.json file to set the URL of your Slack channel and the token to use for authentication. You can skip this step if you do not want to use Slack and only want to use the example based on notifications saved into files.
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Build the docker images
docker-compose build
Note: The docker-compose build command will produce images based on your local machine’s architecture. If you plan to deploy this sample on a Kubernetes cluster, ensure the target environment uses the same architecture (e.g., x86_64 vs. arm64) to avoid compatibility issues. You may also need to specify a platform explicitly if building for a different architecture.
- In Kubernetes. (You need ODM installed in Kubernetes)
- In Docker.