Technical requirements

To follow along with the hands-on material in this chapter, you will need to follow the steps in the previous chapter or access the resources from that chapter and refer back to it if anything is unclear. You will also need to do the following:

• You must create a new private repository under your organization, FinOps.GitHub, that has been initialized with a readme file.
• You will need to create a short-term classic personal access token that has access to query the organization you’ve created. It will need the scope of repo and read:org and store that as a secret with a name of REPOSITORY_ADMIN_PAT to FinOps.GitHub.
• You’ll also need to create a new Slack Webhook for a new channel called github-finops, which will then be saved as a secret named FINOPS_SLACK_CHANNEL under the newly created repository.

We will be walking through the process of creating everything else in this chapter.