The document discusses ChatOps, a collaboration model that integrates tools and automation within chat conversations, enhancing team visibility and task management. It highlights its implementation at Namshi, showcasing a streamlined deployment process for applications using a chatbot named Nancy, which facilitates easy deployments and reduces manual tasks for developers and operations teams. The presentation encourages organizations to adopt ChatOps to improve efficiency and foster a culture of automation.

1. Embrace chatOps,
stop installing deployment software
Geshan Manandhar
@geshan

2. ◉ Senior Software Engineer
○ Tech solution provider
◉ Agile follower and conditional
microservices believer
whoami

3. What to expect from this talk

4. What is chatOps?

5. Why do chatOps?

6. How we do chatOps at Namshi

7. How can you start using chatOps in minutes

8. What is chatOps?

9. “
“putting tools right in the middle of the
conversation” - Jesse Newland, GitHub
Source: https://speakerdeck.com/jnewland/chatops-at-github

10. “
“ChatOps is a collaboration model that
connects people, tools, process, and
automation into a transparent
workflow.” - Sean Regan, Atlassian
Source: http://blogs.atlassian.com/2016/01/what-is-chatops-adoption-guide/

11. “
“To move fast and maintain stability it’s
important to have a culture of
automation, measurement and sharing
(CAMS).” - Jason Hand, Victorops
Author of ChatOps For Dummies
Source: http://www.slideshare.net/VictorOps/chatops

12. “
“ChatOps is a way to automate tasks
within a chat conversation, making it
visible to the whole team”

13. Chat Clients with rooms or #channels

14. The Bots
Hubot By GitHub
Written in Coffeescript + Nodejs
Lita
Written in Ruby
Err
Written in Python

15. Custom scripts

16. Putting them all together = your chatOps stack

17. Why do chatOps?

18. Devs are happy, Ops are happier

19. Devs are free from installing extra software locally

20. Devs don’t need to install correct vesion of Ruby

21. or python

22. Anyone with permission can deploy from anywhere

23. Devs don’t need ssh access to the servers, so Ops
don’t give it to them.

24. Ops are happier.
They don’t need to do the boring tasks, the bots do it for the team.

25. Each task done by the bot is visible to the whole team

26. How we do chatOps at Namshi

27. Tech stack at Namshi

28. There are ~35 microservices at Namshi
https://pixabay.com/en/lego-stones-build-toy-622602/

29. Big chunk of the backend is in PHP, other apps are built with NodeJs + Js

30. All new apps are dockerized

31. Servers on AWS are managed with salt stack

32. Apps are deployed with Capistrano/Kubernetes

33. “
“Your deploys should be as boring,
straightforward, and stress-free as
possible.” - Zach Holman
Source: https://zachholman.com/posts/deploying-software

34. We deployed with email request ~4 years back

35. Our ChatOps Stack

36. Our ChatOps Stack

37. Our ChatOps Stack

38. Our ChatOps Stack

39. Chat bot at Namshi can deploy an application

40. Lock an application for testing

41. Fetch version of an application

42. Let’s see how the deployment is done by the bot

43. Easy Deployment process

44. Easy Deployment process
Nancy Deploy

45. Easy Deployment process
Nancy Deploy

46. Easy Deployment process
Nancy Deploy
Cap/Kube deploy

47. Easy Deployment process
Nancy Deploy
Cap/Kube deploy

48. Easy Deployment process
Nancy Deploy
Cap/Kube deploy
Deploy output

49. Easy Deployment process
Nancy Deploy
Cap/Kube deploy
Deploy output
Deploy Result

50. Say Hello to Nancy

51. 30
Live deployments in a day
99%
Success!
90
Staging deployments in a day
It is normal to go live 3-5 times a day for a service/application.

52. Demo

53. How can you start using chatOps in minutes

54. Thinking you have too many things to set up?

55. ChatOps as a service, has a free plan with 1 bot
https://pixabay.com/en/discovery-space-shuttle-launch-1087701/

56. There is a SAAS even for deployments

57. Deployment as a service, no free plan anymore
https://pixabay.com/en/discovery-space-shuttle-launch-1087701/

58. Let the chatbot do the boring, recurring tasks.
So that you can focus on the productive ones.

59. Any questions ?
You can find me at
◉ @geshan
◉ Geshan.com.np
◉ slideshare.net/geshan
Thanks!
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60. Credits/References
◉ https://pixabay.com/en/child-girl-winter-snow-face-562297/
◉ https://pixabay.com/en/robot-toy-grey-first-plane-916284/
◉ https://pixabay.com/en/primate-ape-thinking-mimic-view-1019101/
◉ https://pixabay.com/en/running-sprint-cinder-track-498257/
◉ https://speakerdeck.com/jnewland/chatops-at-github
◉ http://blogs.atlassian.com/2016/01/what-is-chatops-adoption-guide/
◉ http://www.slideshare.net/VictorOps/chatops
◉ https://pixabay.com/en/child-beach-liangxiaowucai-happy-538029/
◉ https://pixabay.com/en/jewelry-ruby-pendant-625724/
◉ https://pixabay.com/en/burmese-python-snake-reptile-nature-1150794/
◉ https://pixabay.com/en/lock-door-old-rust-bolt-895278/
◉ https://unsplash.com/photos/8GVGrjx82oo
◉ http://www.livefootballhub.com/tag/nepal/
◉ https://pixabay.com/en/stacked-stones-cairn-rock-balance-1007944/
◉ https://pixabay.com/en/lego-stones-build-toy-622602/
◉ https://pixabay.com/en/child-childrens-baby-children-s-817368/
◉ http://abdelrahmanhosny.com/2015/07/11/how-to-merge-two-docker-images/
◉ https://pixabay.com/en/crystal-salt-stone-white-salt-955935/
◉ https://pixabay.com/en/military-jet-flight-flying-f-15-1096881/

61. Credits/References
◉ https://zachholman.com/posts/deploying-software
◉ Billy Roh - https://dribbble.com/shots/503044-Hubot/attachments/34307
◉ https://pixabay.com/en/discovery-space-shuttle-launch-1087701/
◉ https://pixabay.com/en/lock-locked-padlock-closed-fence-1079329/
◉ https://pixabay.com/en/golden-retriever-animal-shelter-750592/
◉ https://pixabay.com/en/discovery-space-shuttle-launch-1087701/
◉ https://pixabay.com/en/rocket-launch-smoke-rocket-take-off-67723/
◉ https://pixabay.com/en/robonaut-saluting-dexterous-600978/
◉ https://stackstorm.com/2015/12/10/chatops_pitfalls_and_tips/
◉ First Illustration by: Anjan Shrestha - Anjhero.me
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