Slack ChatOps for releases
Looking for solutions,
problem:
inherited project, release process is semi manual and cannot be completed without heavy engineer involvement.
proposition:
in order to win back time for engineers to refactor the release process into something a little more up to date, we should create a slack chatbot which can be used to send api requests to our build and release automation services.
I have done some research and the most accessible solution appears to be which supports a sort of ACL which would be perfect for the gated release process our stakeholders require.
The solution needs to be fairly lightweight and written in an accessible language that won't require much up skilling from our engineering team should they need to support it.
I am about to enter the rabbit hole on this topic, I have no idea what the infrastructure will look like yet. Hopefully it can all be run from a lambda on AWS.
Any tips, ideas, warnings or references would be greatly appreciated at this point. Keen to hear what you've got for me DevOps!!!
