Delivery Assistant

If you configured approval-strategy manual within your multi-stage delivery, Keptn will ask for an approval before deploying the artefact in the current stage, e.g.:

You can approve or decline this deployment by sending an approval.finished CloudEvent via the Keptn CLI, Keptn Bridge or directly via the API.

Approve or decline an open approval with Keptn CLI

• To fetch a list of open approvals, Keptn CLI provides the keptn get event approval.triggered command:

  $ keptn get event approval.triggered --project=sockshop --stage=production
  Starting to get approval.triggered events
  {
      "contenttype": "application/json",
      "data": {
          "deploymentstrategy": "blue_green_service",
          "image": "docker.io/keptnexamples/carts",
          "labels": null,
          "project": "sockshop",
          "result": "warning",
          "service": "carts",
          "stage": "production",
          "tag": "0.11.2",
          "teststrategy": "performance"
      },
      "id": "5bf26759-4afa-4045-8ccf-81bc398c2fcd",
      "shkeptncontext": "654c80b0-4a02-4d36-96f3-7447df1cdf41",
      "source": "gatekeeper-service",
      "specversion": "1.0",
      "time": "2020-09-17T14:41:14.039Z",
      "type": "sh.keptn.event.approval.triggered"
  }
  

• In addition, by using the command keptn send-event approval.finished the CLI will print a list of open approvals and allows you to choose which one you want to approve/decline:

  $ keptn send event approval.finished --project=ck-sockshop --stage=production --service=carts
  Starting to send approval.finished event
  
   OPTION	VERSION	EVALUATION	
   (1)	0.11.2	n/a		
  Select the option to approve or decline: 
  1
  Do you want to (a)pprove or (d)ecline: 
  a
  ID of Keptn context: 654c80b0-4a02-4d36-96f3-7447df1cdf41
  

Approve or decline an open approval with Keptn Bridge

• To approve/decline an approval, open the Environment view, click on the stage that has a pending approval. When there are pending approvals for a service available, the service tile is expanded automatically. Additionally you can filter the services to see only services with pending approvals by clicking on the blue icon.

• By clicking on the green checkmark, the deployment will be approved. You can also decline by clicking on the red abort button.

  

Approve or decline an open approval with Keptn API

• Note down the keptn-context (shkeptncontext) and id (maps to triggeredid) of the sh.keptn.event.approval.triggered CloudEvent, e.g.,

  "shkeptncontext": "654c80b0-4a02-4d36-96f3-7447df1cdf41",
  "id": "5bf26759-4afa-4045-8ccf-81bc398c2fcd",

• Specify a valid Keptn CloudEvent of type sh.keptn.event.approval.finished and store it as JSON file, e.g., approval_finished.json

{
  "shkeptncontext": "654c80b0-4a02-4d36-96f3-7447df1cdf41",
  "source": "https://github.com/keptn/keptn/cli#approval.finished",
  "specversion": "1.0",
  "type": "sh.keptn.event.approval.finished",
  "contenttype": "application/json",
  "triggeredid": "5bf26759-4afa-4045-8ccf-81bc398c2fcd",
  "data": {
    "approval": {
      "result": "pass",
      "status": "succeeded"
    },
    "deploymentstrategy": "blue_green_service",
    "eventContext": null,
    "image": "docker.io/keptnexamples/carts",
    "labels": null,
    "project": "ck-sockshop",
    "service": "carts",
    "stage": "production",
    "tag": "0.11.2",
    "teststrategy": "performance"
  }
}

• Send the approval finished event to the /event endpoint:

curl -X POST "${KEPTN_ENDPOINT}/v1/event" \
-H "accept: application/json; charset=utf-8" \
-H "x-token: ${KEPTN_API_TOKEN}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8" \
-d @./approval_finished.json