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AlexaOps - Controlling AWS using Alexa

Why? cause why not?!

Intro

This repo is an example implementation backed by a presentation. The idea is to create an Alexa skill, backed by AWS Lambda to control various operations on the AWS platform.

Usage

This skill supports the following actions:

  • "How many development servers are running?"
    • There are 3 Development servers, 1 server is offline
  • "Turn on all development servers"
    • I have started 1 development server
  • "What is my Amazon bill?"
    • Your current total is $5. Your itemised bill shows, Route53 - $3, DynamoDB - $2
  • "Scale my backend service to 5"
    • I have scaled the backend service to 5 instances

Setup

Steps are covered in the 'AlexaOps' (final) section of the presentation however are also covered below in less detail.

  • Create a new skill in the Alexa Developer console.
  • Take note of the skill id in the created skill.
  • Create intents, slots and utterances - alexa_template.json can be copied into the code editor.
  • Change ALEXA_SKILL_ID in the serverless.yml to the above value.
  • Run serverless deploy
  • Take note of the created function's ARN.
  • In the Alexa developer console add the lambda endpoint ARN.
  • Check the skill is enabled within your account in the Alexa App

Presentation

The initial revision of the presentation is available on GitHub pages