This document discusses ChatOps and how Hubot can be used as part of a team for communication. It describes how GitHub uses Hubot for deployments by allowing team members to trigger deployments through commands to Hubot. It also explains how Hubot can provide the status of deployments and what people are working on. The document outlines how scripts are used to enable Hubot to hear, respond, send and reply to messages. It describes how data can be captured and JSON calls can be made. It also discusses Hubot's brain for storage and provides examples of uses such as tracking the number of sodas consumed. Finally, it suggests potential ways Hubot could be used such as for deployments, builds, integrating with J

1. ChatOps
Look Who's Talking

2. We all know
our friend

4. Doesn't Hubot only know pugs?
@Hubot pug me

5. What if Hubot could do more?

6. What if Hubot was part of the
team?

7. Where did he come from?
→ Created by GitHub
→ github.com/github/hubot
Sample Scripts
→ github.com/github/hubot-scripts

8. How does GitHub use
Hubot?

9. Deployments
jonathan @Hubot deploy github/myfeature to
production
Hubot @jonathan deployed myfeature

10. Recent Deployments
jonathan @Hubot deployed
Hubot @jonathan deployed myfeature today at 3:30
PM
Hubot @nick deployed hotfix yesterday at 4:43 PM
Hubot @sha deployed awesome yesterday at 12:23
PM

11. Deployments
jonathan @Hubot deploy github/myfeature to
production
Hubot @jonathan deployed myfeature

12. Status
jonathan @Hubot I'm working on the best
presentation ever
Hubot got it!
nick @Hubot what is jonathan working on?
Hubot Jonathan is working on the best presentation
ever

13. How busy is shake shack?
rick @Hubot shake cam

14. I know what you are
thinking...

15. What about
Chipotle?Maybe not everyone... just Rick

16. But why not just write a script?
A non-chat script?

17. ChatOps is about
communication

18. It gives your entire team
insight into whats been
run

19. It gives other team
members the ability to
run scripts

20. Anatomy of a Script

21. It's just Node
module.exports = function(robot) {
robot.respond(/is it (weekend|holiday)s??/i, function(msg){
var today = new Date();
msg.reply(today.getDay() === 0 || today.getDay() === 6 ? "YES" : "NO");
});
}

22. Most written in coffee script

23. module.exports = (robot) ->
robot.respond /shake cam/i, (msg) ->
msg.send 'http://www.shakeshack.com/camera.jpg'

24. Are you listening?
because Hubot is...

25. Hearing & Responding
robot.hear /badger/i
jonathan I don't want to badger anyone
robot.respond /open the pod bay doors/i
nick @Hubot open the pod bay doors

26. Talking Back

27. Sending
module.exports = (robot) ->
robot.hear /badger/i, (res) ->
res.send "Badgers? BADGERS? WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN BADGERS"
jonathan I don't want to badger anyone
Hubot Badgers? BADGERS? WE DON'T NEED NO
STINKIN BADGERS"

28. Replying
module.exports = (robot) ->
robot.respond /open the pod bay doors/i, (res) ->
res.reply "I'm afraid I can't let you do that."
nick @Hubot open the pod bay dooors
Hubot @nick I'm afraid I can't let you do that.

29. Capture data
→ What if I want to open a different door?
robot.respond /open the (.*) doors/i, (res) ->
doorType = res.match[1]
if doorType is "pod bay"
res.reply "I'm afraid I can't let you do that."
else
res.reply "Opening #{doorType} doors"

30. Making JSON calls
robot.http("https://midnight-train")
.header('Accept', 'application/json')
.get() (err, res, body) ->
# error checking code here
data = JSON.parse body
res.send "#{data.passenger} taking midnight train going #{data.destination}"

31. If I only had a brain...

32. Hubot's brain
→ Provides in-memory key-value storage robot.brain
robot.respond /have a soda/i, (res) ->
sodasHad = robot.brain.get('totalSodas') * 1 or 0
if sodasHad > 4
res.reply "I'm too fizzy.."
else
res.reply 'Sure!'
robot.brain.set 'totalSodas', sodasHad+1
robot.respond /sleep it off/i, (res) ->
robot.brain.set 'totalSodas', 0
msg.reply 'zzzzz'

33. Some other cool features
→ Restricted Access to Commands
→ XML Parsing
→ Screen Scraping (cheerio and jsdom)
→ Watch if topic changes
→ Know when someone enters or leaves a room

34. How could we use Hubot?

35. Ideas?
→ Deployments
→ Phonegap Builds
→ Jira Integration?
→ Time logging into jira?