kscout/slack-chat-bot-api repository overview

⁠Slack-client-scout

Slack interface for chatbot api

⁠Table Of Contents

• Overview⁠
• Development⁠
• Deployment⁠
• Examples⁠

⁠Overview

Slack interface helps user to access chatbot api interactively. Users can ask queries regarding serverless, search for apps, and deploy apps using slack channel. Following Examples⁠ section will walk you through some sample conversations in a slack channel using the bot.

⁠Development

The slack-client server can be run locally.

Configuration⁠, and Run⁠ sections.

⁠Configuration

For local developement follow the steps below:

• Create a Slack App
• Create a Botuser -Configuration is passed via environment variables.
• BOTUSER_TOKEN : API key assigned to the bot
• VERIFICATION_TOKEN :Unique id given to requests coming from slack
• To access events in slack, create a public url using ngork
• Add /listening to slack interactive messages and events subscription pannels

⁠Run

Start the server by running:

pip install -r requirements.txt

python app.py

⁠Deployment

⁠Deployment Configuration

Create a copy of deploy/values.secrets.example.yaml named deploy/values.secrets.ENV.yaml for whichever deployment environment you wish to configure.

Edit this file with your own values.

Never commit this file.

⁠Deploy

Initialize submodules:

git submodule update --init --recursive

Deploy production by running:

make deploy-prod

If this is the first time production has been deployed run:

make rollout-prod

⁠Examples