The presentation discusses the concept of ChatOps in DevOps and automation, highlighting its origins, benefits, and practical use cases through demos using webhooks and poshbot. Key applications include logging, status sharing, and job execution within team chat platforms like Slack and Microsoft Teams. The session concludes with an invitation to learn more about Microsoft technology through the Future Ready Skills program.

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Automate yourself out of a job:
Use ChatOps!
Jaap Brasser
@Jaap_Brasser

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Jaap Brasser
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Blogger / Speaker / Tech Enthusiast
@Jaap_Brasser

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Agenda
• What?
• How?
• Technologies?
• Integrate?
• Demos!

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What is ChatOps?

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Where does it come from?

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Why use it?

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What are WebHooks
• Transfer data over HTTP(s)
• Create triggers based on this data
• Integrate different services
• Methods
• Get
• Post

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Demo - WebHook

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Demo Summary
Configure Web Hooks
Send message using a Webhooks
PSSlack module
Web Hooks and Microsoft Teams

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Webhooks

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What can we use this for?
• Logging
• Automatically share status with team
• Triggered events

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Demo – Configuring PoshBot

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Demo Summary
Created Slack API Token
Installed PoshBot
Configured PoshBot
Showed basic functionality
Install additional modules

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Slack Connectivity
User command JSON to PoshBot Execute command
Receive output Send output to Slack Receive Job output

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Demo – Use cases

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Demo Summary
Check connectivity
Check diskspace report
Retrieve events from Eventlog
Check Service status
Restart Service
Restart Machine
Execute arbitrary code

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What’s the use case?
• Platform for existing scripts
• Central logging location
• Teach-by-example in team chat
• Combine data from multiple sources
• Access from any device
• Distributed teams using central Chat

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ChatOps Platform

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Gather information

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Summary
• What do we like about ChatOps
• How to implement it
• PoshBot
• Webhooks
• What usage scenarios

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DEVOPS &
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25. DEVOPS &
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knowledge about Microsoft
technology?
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16:15 – 17:15
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