If you don’t already have a Slack account and workspace, go ahead and create one by going to https://slack.com/. Once you've created your workspace and added a few channels, you will create an incoming webhook, which will expose a custom token for fastlane to leverage to post messages to specific channels.
Incoming webhooks are a simple way to post messages from external sources into Slack. They make use of normal HTTP requests with JSON payloads, which includes the message and a few other optional details.
From either your Slack desktop app or via the website, once logged in, go to Custom Integrations
| Incoming WebHooks
to commence configuring and exposing our Webhook URL.
Following the instructions on the subsequent page, you should get a Webhook URL that you will need to note down, as we will be using it shortly. Feel free to customize the name and icons of your new webhook bot, if you want:
Now we have set up everything we need on Slack...