Awesome ChatOps

A collection of awesome things about ChatOps.

ChatOps is a collaboration model that helps to connect people, process, tools, and automation into a transparent workflow (conversation-driven development). So it allows to automate tasks and collaborate, encourages teams to be transparent, working better, cheaper and faster.

If you want to contribute, please read CONTRIBUTING.md.

Contents

• Articles
• Videos
• Books
• Events
• Podcasts
• Resources
• Services
• Frameworks and libraries

Articles

• So, What is ChatOps? And How do I Get Started? – ChatOps concepts and tools.
• What is ChatOps? A guide to its evolution, adoption, and significance – ChatOps and its adoption by HipChat Evangelist.
• How ChatOps can revolutionize your business – Benefits of using ChatOps, tools, current trend and the future.
• 8 Reasons Why ChatOps Isn’t Working At Your Company – The insight on why ChatOps might not be optimized at your company, and some advice how to make it work.
• When ChatOps Goes From Cool to Critical – Some considerations of ChatOps at Librato.
• Better Living Through ChatOps - The benefits ChatOps offers in managing a virtual war room.
• Making a Virtual War Room — the Journey to ChatOps - Creating a virtual war room, step by step.

Videos

• ChatOps at GitHub + slides – The first public talk on the subject by Jesse Newland.
• ChatOps: Technology and Philosophy – James Fryman of Stackstorm about the philosophy, best practices for implementing and maintaining ChatOps.
• The Rise of ChatOps + slides – From the first ChatOps San Francisco meetup by Jimmy Cuadra.
• ChatOps: Augmented Reality for Ops – How Github use chat to improve situational awareness during incidents, to share knowledge, to coordinate activities, and much more.
• Living in the Future with ChatOps + slides – A quick summary of PagerDuty’s ChatOps journey by Eric Sigler.
• Incident Management from the Future + slides – How Michael Ansel manages incidents via chat at Box.
• ChatOps San Francisco YouTube Channel – More videos from each meetup.
• Installing Hubot on Windows with PowerShell DSC - Using the Hubot PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) resource to install Hubot on Windows.
• Embrace ChatOps, stop installing deployment software + slides - A talk from Laracon EU 2016 about how to leverage ChatOps for automated deployment using Hubot.
• ChatOps with PowerShell and Errbot - A talk from PowerShell Conference Europe 2017 about how get started with Errbot on Windows with PowerShell.
• ChatOps with PoshBot and PowerShell - An overview of PoshBot, a PowerShell-based bot framework at the Portland PowerShell user group.

Books

• ChatOps For Dummies – A high-level guide to understanding the origins of the practice, the benefits and tools needed to get started.
• ChatOps – Managing Operations in Group Chat – The key ChatOps concepts and technologies by Jason Hand.
• Automation and Monitoring with Hubot - An e-book that walks you through building a Hubot driven ChatOps implementation.

Events

• ChatOps San Francisco – Discussion and collaboration on all aspects of ChatOps including tools, security, and methodology.

Podcasts

• ChatOps Extravaganza With Jason Hand, Sasha Rosenbaum, And Peter Burkholder – An episode about best practices of ChatOps.
• ChatOps with Jason Hand - An episode about ChatOps in general.

Resources

• /r/chatops – Subreddit with articles and discussion.

Services

• AWS ChatBot - an interactive agent to monitor and interact with AWS resources in Slack.

Frameworks and libraries

These open source projects will help you to build a bot to automate your company chat depending on the platform.

• AIM
• Campfire
• ChatWork
• Dasher
• Discord
• Facebook Messenger
• Fleep
• Flowdock
• Gitter
• HipChat
• Idobata
• iMessage
• IRC
• Jabbr
• Let’s chat
• Lingr
• Matrix
• Mattermost
• Partychat
• QQ
• Rocket.Chat
• Skype
• Skyweb
• Slack
• Spark
• Talker
• Telegram
• Tox
• Twilio
• Twitter
• Typetalk
• VictorOps
• Visual Studio Online
• Vkontakte
• WeChat
• XMPP / Jabber
• Yammer
• Zulip

AIM

• Hubot + adapter (CoffeeScript, Node.js)

Campfire

• Errbot + adapter (Python)
• Hal + adapter (Go)
• Hubot + adapter (CoffeeScript, Node.js)
• Lita + adapter (Ruby)

ChatWork

• Hubot + adapter (CoffeeScript, Node.js)
• Lita + adapter (Ruby)

Dasher

• Hubot + adapter (CoffeeScript, Node.js)

Discord

• Discordrb (Ruby)
• Errbot + adapter (Python)
• Lita + adapter (Ruby)

Facebook Messenger

• Botkit (JavaScript, Node.js)
• FacebookMessenger (Ruby)
• Hubot + adapter (CoffeeScript, Node.js)
• Lita + adapter (Ruby)
• opsdroid + connector (Python)

Fleep

• Hubot + adapter (CoffeeScript, Node.js)

Flowdock

• Hubot + adapter (CoffeeScript, Node.js)
• Lita + adapter (Ruby)

Gitter

• Errbot + adapter (Python)
• Hubot + adapter (CoffeeScript, Node.js)
• Lita + adapter (Ruby)

HipChat

• Cog (Any language)
• Errbot (Python)
• Hal + adapter (Go)
• Hipbot (Ruby)
• Hipchat via XMPP (Go)
• Hipchat-go via HipChat API v2 (Go)
• Hubot + adapter (CoffeeScript, Node.js)
• Lita + adapter (Ruby)
• Will (Python)

Idobata

• Lita + adapter (Ruby)

iMessage

• Hubot + adapter (CoffeeScript, Node.js)

IRC

• Cinch (Ruby)
• Errbot (Python)
• Hal + adapter (Go)
• Hubot + adapter (CoffeeScript, Node.js)
• Lita + adapter (Ruby)
• PagerBot (Ruby)
• Yetibot (Clojure)

Jabbr

• Hubot + adapter (CoffeeScript, Node.js)

Let’s chat

• Hubot + adapter (CoffeeScript, Node.js)

Lingr

• Hubot + adapter (CoffeeScript, Node.js)

Matrix

• opsdroid + connector (Python)

Mattermost

• Errbot + adapter (Python)
• Hubot + adapter (CoffeeScript, Node.js)
• Hubot + adapter via Websockets (CoffeeScript, Node.js)

Partychat

• Hubot + adapter (CoffeeScript, Node.js)

QQ

• Hubot + adapter (CoffeeScript, Node.js)

Rocket.Chat

• Errbot + adapter (Python)
• Hubot + adapter (CoffeeScript, Node.js)

Skype

• Errbot + adapter (Python)
• Hubot + adapter (CoffeeScript, Node.js)
• Hubot + adapter via Web (CoffeeScript, Node.js)

Skyweb

• Hubot + adapter (CoffeeScript, Node.js)

Slack

• Botkit (JavaScript, Node.js)
• Bolt (JavaScript, Node.js)
• Cog (Any language)
• Elixir-Slack (Elixir)
• Errbot (Python)
• Hal + adapter (Go)
• Hubot + adapter (CoffeeScript, Node.js)
• Jubot (Clojure)
• Lita + adapter (Ruby)
• Multivac (Python, Docker)
• opsdroid + connector (Python)
• PagerBot (Ruby)
• PoshBot (PowerShell)
• Slack-Ruby-Bot (Ruby)
• Slackbotsy (Ruby)
• Slacker (Elixir)
• Yetibot (Clojure)

Spark

• opsdroid + connector (Python)

Talker

• Hubot + adapter (CoffeeScript, Node.js)

Telegram

• Errbot (Python)
• Hubot + adapter (CoffeeScript, Node.js)
• Lita + adapter (Ruby)
• opsdroid + connector (Python)
• Telegram-bot-ruby (Ruby)
• TelegramBot (Crystal)
• TelegramBot (Ruby)

Tox

• Errbot + adapter (Python)
• Lita + adapter (Ruby)

Twilio

• Botkit via IP Messaging (JavaScript, Node.js)
• Hubot + adapter via IP Messaging (CoffeeScript, Node.js)
• Hubot + adapter via SMS (CoffeeScript, Node.js)

Twitter

• Chatterbot (Ruby)
• Hubot + adapter (CoffeeScript, Node.js)
• Lita + adapter (Ruby)
• opsdroid + connector (Python)

Typetalk

• Hubot + adapter (CoffeeScript, Node.js)

VictorOps

• Hubot + adapter (CoffeeScript, Node.js)

Visual Studio Online

• Hubot + adapter (CoffeeScript, Node.js)

Vkontakte

• Errbot + adapter (Python)
• Lita + adapter (Ruby)

WeChat

• Hubot + adapter (CoffeeScript, Node.js)

XMPP / Jabber

• Errbot (Python)
• Hubot + adapter (CoffeeScript, Node.js)
• Jabberjay (Clojure)

Yammer

• Hubot + adapter (CoffeeScript, Node.js)

Zulip

• Errbot + adapter (Python)
• Hubot + adapter (CoffeeScript, Node.js)

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