Awesome ChatOps

A collection of awesome things about ChatOps.

ChatOps is a collaboration model that helps to connect people, process, tools, and automation into a transparent workflow (conversation-driven development). So it allows to automate tasks and collaborate, encourages teams to be transparent, working better, cheaper and faster.

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Contents

• Articles
• Videos
• Books
• Events
• Podcasts
• Resources
• Services
• Frameworks and libraries

Articles

• So, What is ChatOps? And How do I Get Started? – ChatOps concepts and tools.
• What is ChatOps? A guide to its evolution, adoption, and significance – ChatOps and its adoption by HipChat Evangelist.
• How ChatOps can revolutionize your business – Benefits of using ChatOps, tools, current trend and the future.
• 8 Reasons Why ChatOps Isn't Working At Your Company – The insight on why ChatOps might not be optimized at your company, and some advice how to make it work.
• When ChatOps Goes From Cool to Critical – Some considerations of ChatOps at Librato.
• Better Living Through ChatOps - The benefits ChatOps offers in managing a virtual war room.
• Making a Virtual War Room — the Journey to ChatOps - Creating a virtual war room, step by step.

Videos

• ChatOps at GitHub + slides – The first public talk on the subject by Jesse Newland.
• ChatOps: Technology and Philosophy – James Fryman of Stackstorm about the philosophy, best practices for implementing and maintaining ChatOps.
• The Rise of ChatOps + slides – From the first ChatOps San Francisco meetup by Jimmy Cuadra.
• ChatOps: Augmented Reality for Ops – How Github use chat to improve situational awareness during incidents, to share knowledge, to coordinate activities, and much more.
• Living in the Future with ChatOps + slides – A quick summary of PagerDuty's ChatOps journey by Eric Sigler.
• Incident Management from the Future + slides – How Michael Ansel manages incidents via chat at Box.
• ChatOps San Francisco YouTube Channel – More videos from each meetup.
• Installing Hubot on Windows with PowerShell DSC - Using the Hubot PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) resource to install Hubot on Windows.
• Embrace ChatOps, stop installing deployment software + slides - A talk from Laracon EU 2016 about how to leverage ChatOps for automated deployment using Hubot.
• ChatOps with PowerShell and Errbot - A talk from PowerShell Conference Europe 2017 about how get started with Errbot on Windows with PowerShell.
• ChatOps with PoshBot and PowerShell - An overview of PoshBot, a PowerShell-based bot framework at the Portland PowerShell user group.

Books

• ChatOps For Dummies – A high-level guide to understanding the origins of the practice, the benefits and tools needed to get started.
• ChatOps – Managing Operations in Group Chat – The key ChatOps concepts and technologies by Jason Hand.
• Automation and Monitoring with Hubot - An e-book that walks you through building a Hubot driven ChatOps implementation.

Events