Python slack ChatOps

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• Check more: https://www.dennyzhang.com/tag/chatops

System Design

• Limitation: Only Python3 is supported. (Use docker to deploy by default).

Major Default Slack Bots

DevOps ChatOps via Slack Commands. All commands starts with /chat*
- /chatclusterusage: Overall resource usage, and summary by role.
- /chatcloudexpense: Show cloud bills across different cloud providers.
- /chatqueryhost [substring of hostname]: Query host without manual ssh.
- /chathelp: Current online help usage

• TODO: guide people to add their own, if they want

How To Use

1. Setup ChatOps Server via docker-compose

1.1. Prepare ssh_id_rsa and config.py

1.2. docker-compose up -d

2. Setup in client nodes

wget -O /usr/sbin/node_usage.py \
     https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DennyZhang/devops_public/tag_v6/python/node_usage/node_usage.py

3. Create slack commands in Slack setting page

Configure Slack Commands for each python flask endpoint.

4. Try the bots in Slack

Useful commands

Check: docker-entrypoint.sh

tail -f /tmp/uwsgi-wsgi.log

docker-compose down && docker-compose up -d \
  && docker exec -it devops_chatops tail -f /tmp/uwsgi-wsgi.log

Limitation

1. Query nodes from slack, we use ssh private key. Here we assume one private key can login to all related nodes

More Resources

• Reference: https://github.com/slackapi/Slack-Python-Onboarding-Tutorial