Automating repetitive communication tasks with a bot
summary
A bot named Alice enforces custom GitHub rules (per-file approval), auto-reverts merges with no review, and posts human-readable trace logs into Slack so anyone can find the offending PR and author. It triggers Jenkins and a homegrown CI on a $30 self-hosted machine, runs tests and annotates PRs, and uses a Snooper service to report deployed branch and machine health, saving about 15 minutes per manual check. The system is open source and wires GitHub webhooks, Slack API and Jenkins API.
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chapters (27)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:36About Pooja
- 2:15Agenda
- 3:08Release Day Conversation
- 4:18Batman
- 4:53Deadpool
- 6:32What could happen
- 8:05Roger Leonard
- 8:53Problems
- 9:35How it works
- 11:01Bugs
- 11:44Auto revert
- 12:47Trace back
- 13:30Slack
- 14:47Danger Signboard
- 15:18Example
- 16:03Lack of awareness
- 18:46Monitoring tasks
- 19:07Static tasks
- 19:33Integration
- 20:36Demo
- 27:35Recap
- 28:42Continuous Integration
- 30:41Magic
- 31:31How the system works
- 32:46GitHub
- 34:17The future
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