How is ChatOps Formed?

Abstract:

Chatops, as defined by Webster's New World Dictionary, is doing your DevOps through chat. In this talk, you will learn the 2 Ws of Chatops: Why and How.

Why Chatops?

• It centralizes information in useful ways
• It democratizes DevOps, giving anyone the power and confidence to do your job for you
• It's way more fun than the terminal

How Chatops?

• Use OSS Hubot and hubot-scripts (Thanks Github!)
• Write your own plugins for company-specific commands and metrics
• Start with the one thing that people bug you the most to do
• Then listen to your users, they'll tell you ("Wouldn't it be cool if the bot did X?")
• Refine the interactions to have a high signal-to-noise ratio

Speaker: Carol Nichols Hammer of Justice, Think Through Learning