ms-teams-message

Function-as-a-service to send a one-to-one message between a technical account and an employee. You can use it as a notification channel between any application and employees.

How to set it up

Assuming that you already have the OpenFaaS (alternatively faasd), the steps are:

1. Prepare Azure Active Directory Application

Please follow the instruction. Please focus on Register an application only.

After creating, go to Authentication > Advanced settings > Allow public client flows > Enable the following mobile and desktop flows:, select Yes.

2. Create secrets

You have to create a couple of secrets.

Secret name	Description
ms-teams-message-az-client-id	Azure Active Directory Application Client Id
ms-teams-message-upn	Your technical account User Principal Name
ms-teams-message-password	Your technical account password
ms-teams-message-sentry-dsn	Sentry DSN. If you don't want to use it, just type anything.

faas-cli secret create ms-teams-message-az-client-id --gateway <OpenFaaS Gateway>
faas-cli secret create ms-teams-message-upn --gateway <OpenFaaS Gateway>
faas-cli secret create ms-teams-message-password --gateway <OpenFaaS Gateway>
faas-cli secret create ms-teams-message-sentry-dsn --gateway <OpenFaaS Gateway>

3. Deploy the function

faas-cli deploy -f ms-teams-message.yml --gateway <OpenFaaS Gateway>

How to send a message

To send a message simply call the POST method on http://<OpenFaaS Gateway>/function/ms-teams-message with payload:

{
    "recipient": "[email protected]",
    "message": "The message body can contain HTML tags. For example you can `<b>bold some part of the message body</b>."
}