Reserve/release test environments from Slack
Use Slack chat bot to help streamline test environment reservation and deployment. Users can reserve a test environment for deployment (via Jenkins) without worrying about stepping on others with the added ability to release it when their work is done. The environment is also released after a configurable number of hours. This is a Python app that uses the Slack real time messaging (RTM) API and packaged as a Docker container.
- Create a bot using the Slack Web UI using your team account under Configure Apps - Custom Integrations
- Add new Bot configuration and save the API token
- Copy QASlackBot.env.sample to QASlackBot.env and replace the TOKEN value with the saved token from 2.
- Generate a token for Jenkins to enable remote trigger of jobs and replace the JENKINS_TOKEN value
- Adjust the TIMEOUT in seconds
- Invite the bot user created above to any #channel
- Build the docker image -
docker build . -t qaslackbot:qa - Use Docker swarm or compose to run the container -
docker-compose up - After test env reservation, the bot can launch a Jenkins build job based on the parameters passed and will post the url to the channel for quick access.
The methodology used in this app can be extended to spinning-up new test environments in the cloud and deploying specific versions