Slides and more details up at https://github.com/seerickcode/chatops-lfnw

Chat Bots are nothing new, but the buzzword mill has recycled bot excitement for a new generation. Bots are awesome and Chat provides an easy to develop and deploy user interface for Devops functions (and basically anything).

We will quickly run through a brief overview of the history of chat, and bots, what the new Chat Ops buzz word means, then jump right into the demo thunderdome by creating a simple bot deployed against an open chat room that the audience will be invited into. You will have the opportunity to get access to an instance to make your own bot, all powered by another bot.

If all the technology co-operates, a good time should be had by all, but worst case should have enough supporting slides so that everyone can get started bringing this recycled UI to help with their development teams needs, or whatever other system that a chat based UI could be handy.

eg..

-> @handybot deploy coolproject/feature_branch with dbseed horsetest until 2pm tomorrow

-> @seerickcode: Branch "featurebranch" has gone through CI/D without issue, has been seeded with horsetest data and is available at https://bright-spartan.wantitto.work. I will kill it off and recycle the bits on Wednesday at 2pm after I give you a 10m warning.

-> @handybot release the horde against bright-spartan

-> @seerickcode: horde qa/stress/chaos tests coolproject have been scheduled against https://bright-spartan.wantitto.work. If you wanted a different test set say @handybot help release the horde If you made a horrible mistake @handbot nonono right away to call off the horde

-> @handybot make me a sandwich

-> @seerickcode: Sorry I don't know how to "make me a sandwich" but maybe this can help ? or try @handybot help