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Send Build Notifications to Slack Using Webhooks

You are a DevOps engineer at MDFT Pro, a well-known training agency. As part of your responsibilities, you manage an Azure subscription that hosts an Azure Pipelines pipeline called CourseBuilder. This pipeline is critical for automating the build process of the LearningPortal application, which delivers educational content to students.

Your team has recently set up a dedicated Slack channel named learning-portal-updates with an incoming webhook configured. The team lead has tasked you with integrating Azure DevOps with Slack so that whenever the LearningPortal application is successfully built by the CourseBuilder pipeline, a notification is automatically sent to the learning-portal-updates Slack channel using the webhook.

What should you use in Azure DevOps to accomplish this integration?

Choose the correct answer from the options below.

Explanations for each answer:

An alert rule is incorrect. Alert rules are primarily used for monitoring resources in Azure, not for sending build notifications from Azure DevOps to Slack.
A subscription is correct. In Azure DevOps, a service hook subscription is the correct mechanism to integrate with external services like Slack. Subscriptions listen for specific events (like successful builds) and trigger actions using webhooks to send notifications to configured endpoints.
A notification is incorrect. Notifications are the messages sent, not the mechanism that enables their delivery to Slack via webhooks.
An action group is incorrect. Action groups are used with Azure Monitor to define actions taken when alert conditions are met, not for Azure DevOps build notifications to Slack.

Learn more about creating service hooks for Azure DevOps with Slack:

Service Hooks for Slack

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Send Build Notifications to Slack Using Webhooks