Check SSL certs with Alexa and OpenFaaS

This project contains everything you need to build and Alexa skill to check your SSL certificates.

You can ask Alexa questions like:

Alexa ask Certificate Bot to check my blog

Example response:

Alexa: the URL blog.alexellis.io will expire in 2 months

Setup

• Deploy OpenFaaS and add a TLS-enabled proxy server like Nginx or Caddy

Alternatively use a temporary proxy like Ngrok which offers a quick way to get TLS for 7 hours

• Pull in the node8-express template:

https://github.com/openfaas-incubator/node8-express-template

• Deploy the certificate check function via the OpenFaaS store

This is used to do the checking of the cert

• Set up your Alexa skill using the Skills Kit Developer Console

https://developer.amazon.com/alexa/console/ask?

• Define your skill

Name it "certificate bot"

Give the invocation name "certificate bot"

Add a "slot type" of "website" and enter some test websites

Create an intent of "checkcert" type and make it take the "website" custom slot

check {site}

Alternatively use the JSON model.

• Add an endpoint

Paste the TLS-enabled (HTTPS) address into the endpoints page:

HTTPS / Default region:

https://my-test-site.com/function/alexa-cert-bot

Select that your site has a valid development certificate for its sub-domain