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Review firewalls from a Slack request

Get the firewall list when the team asks in Slack, making routine infrastructure reviews simpler to start.

Trigger

Channel Message Received

Triggered when a message is posted in a Slack channel (public, private, or multi-party IM). Does NOT match direct messages.

Action

List All Firewalls

Tool to list all firewalls on your digitalocean account. use when you need to audit or manage firewall rules with optional pagination.

Why this helps

Firewall reviews stall when someone has to leave the discussion, find the right console, and manually gather the current list.

  • Start a firewall review with current account inventory.
  • Reduce the effort of collecting details before a discussion.
  • Keep the review request and its run report in a chosen channel.

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Slack and DigitalOcean to Notis once through the portal.
  • 2Create a new automation and use one plain-language prompt to retrieve firewalls for Slack messages requesting a firewall review.
  • 3Select Channel Message Received and choose the run-report channel.
  • 4Test with a real Slack message requesting the firewall inventory.

Questions about this workflow

Does retrieving firewalls audit whether rules are safe?

The action lists firewalls. Use the returned inventory as a starting point for a review; it does not make a safety judgment or change rules.

Can it delete outdated firewalls?

No. This workflow is for inventory retrieval, not deletion.

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Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link Slack to Digital ocean. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

Slack triggers

Digital ocean actions

Recurring trigger

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

TriggerScheduled

Create Custom Image

Tool to create a new custom image by providing a url to a linux vm image. use when you need to import a vm image into digitalocean after specifying name, url, distribution, and region.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

TriggerInstant

Create Database Cluster

Tool to create a new managed database cluster. use when you need to provision a database cluster with name, engine, version, region, size, and number of nodes.

ActionInstant

New Channel Created Trigger

Triggered when a new channel is created in Slack.

TriggerInstant

Create New Block Storage Volume

Tool to create a new block storage volume. use when you need to provision persistent block storage after confirming the target region supports volumes. example: "create a 100 gib ext4 backup volume named 'db-backup' in nyc1."

ActionInstant

Channel Message Received

Triggered when a message is posted in a Slack channel (public, private, or multi-party IM). Does NOT match direct messages.

TriggerInstant

Create New Domain

Tool to create a new domain. use when you have the domain name and optionally an ip address to assign an a record.

ActionInstant

Direct Message Received

Triggered when a new direct message (DM) is sent to a user in Slack. Catches all DMs across all DM channels.

TriggerInstant

Create Domain Record

Tool to create a new dns record for a domain. use after confirming domain exists and record specifics.

ActionInstant

Message Reaction Added

Triggered when a reaction is added to a message in Slack. Supports optional filtering by channel and emoji name.

TriggerInstant

Create New Droplet

Tool to create a new droplet. use when you need to provision a vm with name, region, size, and image.

ActionInstant

Message Reaction Removed

Triggered when a reaction is removed from a message in Slack. Supports optional filtering by channel and emoji name.

TriggerInstant

Create New Firewall

Tool to create a new firewall. use when you need to define a firewall name and custom rules (requires at least one inbound and one outbound rule).

ActionInstant

Reaction Added Trigger

DEPRECATED: use `SLACK_MESSAGE_REACTION_ADDED` instead. Triggered when a reaction is added to a message in Slack.

TriggerInstant

Create New Kubernetes Cluster

Tool to create a new kubernetes cluster. use when you have finalized the cluster name, region, version, and at least one node pool. confirm region supports kubernetes clusters before use.

ActionInstant

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