Chat automation has been a persistent buzz in the industry, in this session we will go through setting up Chat automation using PowerShell, how to hit the ground running and what steps to take to convert your existing code base and make it work from Chat. From there on we will dive into how we can securely deploy, manage and administer this as a platform. Expect a session filled with demos and real-world insights of bringing this live in a production environment.

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infrastructure with Nano Server,
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Ravikanth Chaganti
2017
Using Chat Automation - ChatOps
Jaap Brasser
2018
@jaap_brasser

2. Agenda
• What are we talking about today?
• Chat Automation?
• Working with webhooks
• PoshBot integration with Slack

3. Why are we here

4. What is Chat Automation

5. Advantages of Chat

6. Example of ChatOps

7. Webhooks?
• URL
• Json payload
• Integrates directly into your chat platform
• One-way traffic
• Invoke-RestMethod -Method Post

8. Demo
Web Hooks

9. Demo
Summary
• Configure Web Hooks
• Send message to Slack/Teams
• Use PSSlack to simplify
commands

10. Hello #PSConfEU
PS> $SlackMessage = @{
Uri = 'https://hooks.slack.com/…'
Text = 'Hello #PSConfEU !!!'
}
Send-SlackMessage @SlackMessage

11. Demo
ChatOps on Slack

12. Demo
Summary
• Created Slack API Token
• Installed PoshBot
• Configured PoshBot
• Showed basic functionality
• Install additional modules
• Create reporting interaction

13. Summary
• Chat Automation can be used to replace GUI
elements
• Chat can be used for logging and learning
• Does not require scripting knowledge
• Can use existing Chat Infrastructure

14. • Now: 15 min break
• Grab a coffee
• Stay here to enjoy next presentation
• Change track and switch to another room
• Ask me questions or meet me in a breakout session
room afterwards
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15. Questions?

16. about_Author
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