A Chef Exception Handler for Flowdock.

1. Create a Flowdock account.
2. Create a Flowdock flow.
3. Retrieve your Flowdock API Token.
4. Download the chef_handler Cookbook.
5. Given you've retrieved your Flowdock API Token as API_TOKEN, add a Recipe similar to the example below:

include_recipe 'chef_handler'

gem_package('chef-handler-flowdock'){action :nothing}.run_action(:install)

chef_handler 'Chef::Handler::FlowdockHandler' do
  action :enable
  attributes :api_token => "API_TOKEN",
             :from => {:name => "YOUR_NAME", :address => "YOUR_EMAIL"}
  source File.join(Gem::Specification.find{|s| s.name == 'chef-handler-flowdock'}.gem_dir,
    'lib', 'chef', 'handler', 'flowdock_handler.rb')
end

See also: Enable Chef Handler with LWRP

1. Create a Flowdock account.
2. Create a Flowdock flow.
3. Retrieve your Flowdock API Token.
4. Install the chef-handler-flowdock Gem on your node:

gem install chef-handler-flowdock

5. Given you've retrieved your Flowdock API Token as API_TOKEN, add it to your /etc/chef/client.rb on your node:

require '/var/chef/handlers/flowdock_handler'
exception_handlers << Chef::Handler::FlowdockHandler.new(:api_token => "API_TOKEN")

Matthias Marschall

Copyright 2012 Matthias Marschall (mm@agileweboperations.com)

Apache License 2.0