thin Slack Bot

I created this thin Slack bot to demonstrate how easy it is to automate your repetitive actions using a bot

Description

A thin Slack bot using github.com/shomali11/slacker to fork from for your custom slack bot.

Required environment variables

Name	Description
SLACK_BOT_TOKEN	Bot tokens represent a bot associated with the app installed in a workspace
SLACK_APP_TOKEN	App-level tokens represent your app across organizations, including installations by all individual users on all workspaces in a given organization

Slack app

Creation

1. go to https://api.slack.com/apps/
2. create an app from scratch on brcm-bsg-ims-nis-ses workspace
3. generate an app-level token with connections:write scope and retrieve your app token
4. add collaborators
5. go to 'OAuth & Permissions'
6. add the following Bot token scopes
   1. app_mentions:read
   2. channels:history
   3. chat:write
   4. groups:history
   5. im:history
   6. mpim:history
7. add the following Bot token scopes
   1. chat:write
8. go to 'Socket mode'
   1. enable it
   2. go to 'Subscribe to bot events' and add message.im
9. click 'Request to install'
10. retrieve your bot user token
11. got to 'Install app' and install the app

App

app-name
https://api.slack.com/apps/tbd/ on workspace tbd
App token = xapp-1234
Bot token = xoxb-1234

App debug

app-name-debug
https://api.slack.com/apps/tbd/ on workspace tbd
App token = xapp-4321
Bot token = xoxb-4321

Docker

Build

makefile build

Run

docker run -e SLACK_APP_TOKEN="xapp-1234" -e SLACK_BOT_TOKEN="xoxb-1234" myrepo/thin-slack-bot:1.0.0

Deployment

Your containerized Slack bot should be deployed on a workload to provide availability
It is recommended to create a CI pipeline to automate deployment