moikot/slack-nil-bot repository overview

⁠Slack Nil Bot

Nil bot does nothing except keeping WebSocket connection with Slack.

⁠How to run

⁠Using Kubernetes and Helm

If you are running Kubernetes with Helm installed you can start nil-bot in this way:

helm repo add moikot https://moikot.github.io/helm-charts
helm install moikot/slack-nil-bot --name=nil-bot --set token=[bot user key]

⁠Using Docker

On Raspberry Pi (arm) or Linux (amd64) or you can run it on Docker.

docker run -d --restart unless-stopped -e BOT_TOKEN=[bot user token] moikot/slack-nil-bot

⁠Compile and run from code

If you've got Golang environment and Dep installed, you can build it from source and run.

git clone [email protected]:moikot/slack-nil-bot.git

cd slack-nil-bot

dep ensure -vendor-only

export export BOT_TOKEN=[token]; go run .

⁠Prometheus

Nil Bot exposes Prometheus counters on 0.0.0.0:9153/metrics endpoint. If you have Prometheus and Grafana running in your Kubernetes cluster you can add nil_bot_connection_status gauge on a dashboard. The value of gauge is one when Nil Bot is connected to Slack, and zero otherwise.