Since I work in the field building "Conversational Agents", as a pet project, I built a tiny Slackbot using Hubot and API.ai which would trigger builds on our CI/CD server using commands on Slack. It's a field called ChatOps. I can now type these words on any Slack channel and my bidding shall be done:
@bybot Deploy the master branch to production
@bybot Merge #141 into the dev branch
Building a Slackbot is pretty simple. Their API is really easy to consume and you can build a quick Python script on the backend to accept the webhooks and react to them. Frameworks such as Hubot also simplify the process of building such chat agents. If you want a more enterprise oriented framework, you could also check out Cog.
Arpit Mohan
CTO @ Appsmith
Since I work in the field building "Conversational Agents", as a pet project, I built a tiny Slackbot using Hubot and API.ai which would trigger builds on our CI/CD server using commands on Slack. It's a field called ChatOps. I can now type these words on any Slack channel and my bidding shall be done:
@bybot Deploy the master branch to production@bybot Merge #141 into the dev branchBuilding a Slackbot is pretty simple. Their API is really easy to consume and you can build a quick Python script on the backend to accept the webhooks and react to them. Frameworks such as Hubot also simplify the process of building such chat agents. If you want a more enterprise oriented framework, you could also check out Cog.