ChatOps at GitHub

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GitHub runs operations out of Campfire with Hubot, performing puppet no‑op checks, canary deploy to one fileserver, CI‑verified merges that auto‑deploy to production, Graphite graphs shown in chat, log searches via Papertrail and PagerDuty actions including pager me60. Hubot returns deploy output and audit trails so everyone sees each step, newcomers learn by watching, outages coordinate in real time, and mobile fixes and forced rollouts happen without SSH. The claim is visible, repeatable, end‑to‑end chat control of infra rather than vague tooling hype.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:01MOUNTAIN WEST RUBYCONF 2013
3. 0:30ChatOps at GitHub
4. 5:47heaven shell Hubot janky graphme
5. 6:33Why is this stupid chat bot so important to Ops?
6. 10:02By placing tools directly in the middle of the conversation
7. 10:50Communicate doing
8. 13:29Build porcelain around bad tools
9. 16:24Mobile FTW

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