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Don't worry about user identities

In the majority of common use cases, Sym will be able to fetch and persist user identities for any integration using a requestor's Slack email as a search key. For more information on how Sym handles user identities, see our advanced guide on Managing User Identity.

Overview

Here, we'll be doing two important things:

1. Declaring our first Integration as a Terraform resource
2. Using that integration to declare a destination for error messages

Declaring the Slack Integration

Remember that Slack app we installed? To use it, we'll have to link it to the rest of our workflow using a sym_integration:

resource "sym_integration" "slack" {
  type = "slack"
  
  # The `name` must be a unique identifier, so we recommend including the environment
  # in the name, so multiple environments do not have conflicting integration names.
  name = "${var.environment_name}-slack"

  external_id = var.slack_workspace_id
}

Note that we're also using a few variables from terraform.tfvars to help us out. Be sure to set slack_workspace_id to the same workspace ID you used to install the Sym Slack app:

slack_workspace_id = "CHANGEME"
environment_name   = "main"

Declaring the Error Logger

Now that we have a Slack Integration set up, we can use it to declare a sym_error_logger. When used by a Flow, the sym_error_logger will output any warnings or errors that occur during execution to a specified channel in Slack:

# Send errors during Flow execution to a shared logging channel
resource "sym_error_logger" "slack" {
  integration_id = sym_integration.slack.id  # Use the integration we just created!
  destination    = var.error_channel_name
}

The destination above can be any Slack channel name in the workspace that the integration points to. Set it to whatever works best for your organization in terraform.tfvars:

error_channel_name = "#sym-errors"

One Extra Variable

If you're following along with the example, you may have noticed there's one Slack-related variable we haven't talked about yet. We'll talk about flow_variables soon, but for now just note that the request_channel is where your Sym requests will show up.

flow_variables = {
  request_channel = "#sym-requests"  # Slack Channel where requests should go
}

Next steps

Now that Slack is all set, we can finalize the core setup.

1. Set up Sym's Terraform Provider
2. Configure your Terraform to work with Sym ← you are here
3. Implement your first Flow