catalog/task/send-to-telegram/0.1

Post a message to telegram

These tasks post a simple message to a telegram chat.

send-to-telegram

This task uses the Bot API of telegram to send a message. Create a bot as decribed over here.

Install the Task and create a secret

kubectl apply -f https://api.hub.tekton.dev/v1/resource/tekton/task/send-to-telegram/0.1/raw

Create a secret that has bot token.

Example telegram-bot-token-secret.yaml

kind: Secret
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: telegram-bot-token-secret
stringData:
  token: {token over here}

Example kubectl command

kubectl apply -f telegram-bot-token-secret.yaml

Parameters

• bot-token-secret: The name of the secret that has the bot token.

• message: Plain text message to be posted in the chat.

• chat-id: The ID of the chat to send the message towards. See telegram documentation to get the correct ID.

Platforms

The Task can be run on linux/amd64, linux/s390x and linux/ppc64le platforms.

Usage

This TaskRun runs the Task to post a message to the the chat channel.

apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1
kind: TaskRun
metadata:
  name: run-send-to-telegram
spec:
  params:
  - name: bot-token-secret
    value: telegram-bot-token-secret
  - name: message
    value: "Hello from Tekton!"
  - name: chat-id
    value: "<your chat ID over here>"
  taskRef:
    name: send-to-telegram