Gus Bot

This is a Slackbot developed by Platform Enablement to help in the education of users in our channel.

This plugin looks for @here and @channel messages and replies with a request not to do so as well as a link to Platform Enablement's Slacktiquete.

This project is written in python and run in Kubernetes. You can find more information about it's deployment in the pipeline. There are 2 versions of the bot:

• One is continuously deployed into the SIT cluster(europa-preprod) as Gus Bot Edge and it is used for testing purposes
• The other is deployed on demand (by unblocking the pipeline) in the Prod cluster (europa) as Gus Bot

• It is setup to be deployed in Buildkite pipeline.
• ! Important: There is one critical dependency that is NOT deployed automatically for security reasons. Once valid secret SLACKBOT_API_TOKEN is not available to the app, there will be a warning in app's log settings.API_TOKEN doesn't exist. In this case, maintainers should:
  • login in to the cluster in CLI, i.e. myob-auth k -e <env-slug> -n platform-enablement
  • run kube cmd to verify your secret kubectl get secret ops-gus-bot -n platform-enablement
  • If there was a secret in k8s cluster, please run kubectl delete secret ops-gus-bot -n platform-enablement prior to run the next step
  • run kube cmd to upload your secret kubectl create secret generic --from-literal=SLACKBOT_API_TOKEN=<raw slack api token> ops-gus-bot -n platform-enablement

• By default, no one is on the White List which exempts Slack users from being policed by the Gus Bot.
• In Slack, talk to Gus Bot directly to configure the White list. Common cmd are:
  • list
  • add @ to #
  • remove @ to #
  • sudo rm -rf @

• Add health check + Alerts in case the application suddenly stops working.
• Allow users to be added by Slack User Group.
• Data migration/import-export