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Send deployment and container startup notifications to Microsoft Teams using Adaptive Cards. Works in two modes — as a GitHub Action for CI/CD pipeline events, or as a shell script for Azure container startup flows.

First time? Follow SETUP.md to create your Teams Incoming Webhook URL.

Mode 1 — GitHub Action (Deployment Events)

Use this in your GitHub Actions workflows to notify Teams when a deployment starts, succeeds, or fails.

Inputs

Environment display names

Short codes are automatically mapped to friendly labels:

Basic usage — notify on start and completion

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Notify Teams — Deployment started
        uses: vijaycs85/notify-teams@v1
        with:
          teams_webhook_url: ${{ secrets.MS_TEAMS_WEBHOOK_URL }}
          status: start
          environment: ${{ inputs.environment }}
          project_name: My App

      # ... your deployment steps ...

      - name: Notify Teams — Deployment result
        if: always()
        uses: vijaycs85/notify-teams@v1
        with:
          teams_webhook_url: ${{ secrets.MS_TEAMS_WEBHOOK_URL }}
          status: ${{ job.status }}
          environment: ${{ inputs.environment }}
          project_name: My App
          environment_url: https://my-app-${{ inputs.environment }}.example.com
          message: Deployed by ${{ github.actor }} from branch ${{ github.ref_name }}

Recommended pattern — reusable notification workflow

Define a shared notification workflow once and call it from all your deployment workflows.

.github/workflows/notify.yml (in your project repo):

name: Notify Teams

on:
  workflow_call:
    inputs:
      status:
        required: true
        type: string
      environment:
        required: true
        type: string
      environment_url:
        required: false
        type: string
        default: ''
      message:
        required: false
        type: string
        default: ''
    secrets:
      MS_TEAMS_WEBHOOK_URL:
        required: true

jobs:
  notify:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: vijaycs85/notify-teams@v1
        with:
          teams_webhook_url: ${{ secrets.MS_TEAMS_WEBHOOK_URL }}
          status: ${{ inputs.status }}
          environment: ${{ inputs.environment }}
          environment_url: ${{ inputs.environment_url }}
          message: ${{ inputs.message }}

Calling it from a deployment workflow:

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      # ... your deployment steps ...

  notify:
    needs: deploy
    if: always()
    uses: ./.github/workflows/notify.yml
    secrets: inherit
    with:
      status: ${{ needs.deploy.result }}
      environment: production
      environment_url: https://my-app.example.com

Mode 2 — Shell Script (Azure Container Startup Events)

Use this when your Azure Container App (or any server) needs to post Teams cards on restart, successful startup, or startup failure — independently of GitHub Actions.

Install via Composer

Add this package to your project and configure it to install into your .azure/ directory:

In your project's composer.json:

{
  "require": {
    "vijaycs85/notify-teams": "^1.0"
  },
  "extra": {
    "installer-paths": {
      ".azure/notify-teams/": ["vijaycs85/notify-teams"]
    }
  }
}

Then install:

composer require vijaycs85/notify-teams

The scripts will be available at .azure/notify-teams/scripts/notify_teams.sh.

Required environment variables

Set these in your Azure Container App configuration (or equivalent):

Statuses

Integrate into your startup script

Create .azure/startup.sh in your project (or update your existing one):

#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

# Load the Teams notification helper
SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
source "$SCRIPT_DIR/notify-teams/scripts/notify_teams.sh"

# Send failure card automatically on any error
trap 'notify_teams failure "Script failed at line $LINENO. Check container logs."' ERR

# Notify: container has restarted, startup is beginning
notify_teams restart "Container startup initiated."

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Your application startup steps go here, for example:
#
#   php artisan migrate --force
#   php artisan cache:clear
#   composer install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Notify: all steps succeeded
notify_teams success "All startup steps completed. Application is ready."

Configure the startup script in Azure

In your Azure Container App, set the startup command to:

/bin/bash /home/site/wwwroot/.azure/startup.sh

Or in azure.yaml / Bicep:

startupCommand: /bin/bash /home/site/wwwroot/.azure/startup.sh