Add Notify CI/CD Stage
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Add Notify CI/CD Stage

In this section, you will add a notification stage to your GitLab CI/CD pipeline to send Webex notifications to your team about pipeline execution results. This will keep you informed about successful deployments, failures, or any issues that require attention.


Step 1 - Add Notify Stage to Pipeline

You will now add the notify stage to the stages section of your .gitlab-ci.yml file. This stage will run after the CXTM stage to send Webex notifications about the pipeline execution results.

  1. Copy the following line of code to add the notify stage to your .gitlab-ci.yml file pipeline.

    2. 
  - notify

  2. Locate the stages section in your .gitlab-ci.yml file and paste - notify as a new stage after - cxtm.
  3. Confirm that your stages section matches the following:
    4. 
stages:
  - validate
  - plan
  - deploy
  - cxtm
  - notify

Step 2 - Add Notify Job Configuration

Now you will add the job configuration for the notify stage. This job will send Webex notifications about the pipeline execution status.

  1. Scroll down to the end of your .gitlab-ci.yml file and add the following code to configure the notify stage of your pipeline.

    2. 
failure:
  stage: notify
  script:
    - python3 .ci/webex-notification-gitlab.py -f
  when: on_failure
  artifacts:
    when: always
    paths:
      - tests/results/nxos/*.html
      - tests/results/nxos/xunit.xml
      - plan.txt
      - fmt_output.txt
      - validate_output.txt
      - test_output.txt
  cache: []
  only:
    - merge_requests

success:
  stage: notify
  script:
    - python3 .ci/webex-notification-gitlab.py -s
  when: on_success
  artifacts:
    when: always
    paths:
      - tests/results/nxos/*.html
      - tests/results/nxos/xunit.xml
      - plan.txt
      - fmt_output.txt
      - validate_output.txt
      - test_output.txt
  cache: []
  only:
    - merge_requests

  2. Confirm that your .gitlab-ci.yml file matches the screenshot below before going to the next step.



  3. Press Ctrl + s to save the .gitlab-ci.yml file.
    If the keyboard shortcut does not work, please open the VS Code Server hamburger menu and click File > Save.

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