Powershell script to inform NewRelic of deployment; parameterized

newrelic-deployment.ps1

param (
    [string]$appname = "<your-newrelic-appname>",
    [string]$appid = "<your-newrelic-appid>",
    [string]$apiKey = "<your-newrelic-api-key>"
 )

function Execute-HTTPPostCommand() {
    param(
        [string] $target = $null,
	[string] $postParam,
	[string] $key
    )
    $webRequest = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create($target)
    $PostStr = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($postParam)
    $webrequest.ContentLength = $PostStr.Length
    $webRequest.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue = $false
    $webRequest.Headers.Add("x-api-key", $key);
    $webRequest.Method = "POST"
	
    $requestStream = $webRequest.GetRequestStream()
    $requestStream.Write($PostStr, 0,$PostStr.length)
    $requestStream.Close()

	[System.Net.WebResponse] $resp = $webRequest.GetResponse();
	#response check
	if ([int]$resp.StatusCode -eq 201) {
		Write-Host "NewRelic Deploy API called succeeded."
		$rs = $resp.GetResponseStream();
	    [System.IO.StreamReader] $sr = New-Object System.IO.StreamReader -argumentList $rs;
	    [string] $results = $sr.ReadToEnd();
	    return $results;
	} else {
		Write-Host "NewRelic Deploy API called failed."
		Write-Host $resp.StatusCode.ToString() + " " $resp.StatusDescription		
	}
	return "Failed";
}

# set post parameters
$post = "deployment[app_name]=" + $appname +"&amp;deployment[application_id]=" + $appid +"&amp;deployment[user]=" + $env:username

# post url
$URL = "https://api.newrelic.com/deployments.xml"

# show waht to post
Write-Host $post

# send data
Execute-HTTPPostCommand $URL $post $apiKey

#all done