A tiny chatops slack chat bot. Responds to messages in a slack channel by executing predefined custom shell scripts.

Example

Using a config.json containing:

{
  "actions": {
    "sleep": {
      "message": "going to sleep",
      "script": "./script/sleep"
    },
    "help": {
      "message": "I understand: deploy, ping, sleep, top"
    },
}

Installation

• Download/clone the repo
• Run npm install
• Add a bot at https://my.slack.com/services/new/bot and export the environment variable
  • export SLACK_CHATOPS_TOKEN=the_token_from_above
• Create a private channel (aka group) inside slack.
  • Invite the bot
• Edit config.json
  • Set channel
  • Configure actions
• Run npm start