Integrating Ansible Automation and ChatOps

In this session, I will briefly introduce about ChatOps concept and demo a real scenario of triggering a playbook with a chatbot.
And I will show how to set up a chat server and deal with the chats tasks in an intranet environment.

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1. Integrating Ansible Automation and ChatOps 1 Hazel Shen Solution Architect @Red Hat Taiwan
2. 2 Hi I am Hazel Shen. Solution Architect @Red Hat Taiwan Find me by: hazel910159@gmail.com https://hazel.style/ https://github.com/hazel-shen About Me
3. 3 What is IT Automation Ref: https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/automation/whats-it-automation Automation Server Virtual Machine Provisioning Installation OS Dependencies Confidential Management Password Token Create Refresh Network Configuration Backup Configuration Firewall Rules Management DevOPs CI Approval CD
4. 4 Shell Script vs Ansible Playbook VS Ref: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~hwloidl/Courses/LinuxIntro/x864.html
5. 5 Ref: https://github.com/hazel-shen/LINE_notify_collection VS Modules – Easier! Much Easier!
6. 6 Ansible for Beginners Ad-hoc Playbbok Inventory List Modules Plugins API & Connector Private / Public Clouds Storages/ Databases Target Nodes Controlling Nodes User Ansible Components Command &Scripts
7. 7 Ref: https://hazel.style/2021/05/28/How-to-contribute-your-first-Ansible-Collection-and-Ansible-Tower-Workflow-Use- Case/#more Contribute to Galaxy – Step 1 ansible-galaxy collection init ${my_namespace}.${my_collection} Naming Principles - Namespace: What the collection related to ? - Collection: How the collection works ?
8. 8 Ref: https://hazel.style/2021/05/28/How-to-contribute-your-first-Ansible-Collection-and-Ansible-Tower-Workflow-Use- Case/#more Contribute to Galaxy – Step 2
9. 9 Ref: https://hazel.style/2021/05/28/How-to-contribute-your-first-Ansible-Collection-and-Ansible-Tower-Workflow-Use- Case/#more Contribute to Galaxy – Step 3
10. 10 Ref: https://hazel.style/2021/05/28/How-to-contribute-your-first-Ansible-Collection-and-Ansible-Tower-Workflow-Use- Case/#more Contribute to Galaxy – Step 4
11. 11 Ref: https://hazel.style/2021/05/28/How-to-contribute-your-first-Ansible-Collection-and-Ansible-Tower-Workflow-Use- Case/#more Contribute to Galaxy – Step 5
12. 12 Ref: https://youtu.be/ShWHYeIk40U Use Case : with LINE Notification
13. 13 The Idea came from …?
14. 14 Power Outage in 5/13, 5/17
15. What about my data? I haven’t backed them up ! I was still on my way home 15 Ref: Copyright © 2011 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.
16. 16 What is ChatOps
17. 17 Chatbot Flows I – Active Trigger Rule pattern Backend service Rule Pattern command Session Start Trigger Return Result Return Message Chatbot Chatbot
18. 18 ChatOps Flows II – Passive Reception Webhook Server Rule Pattern Rule Pattern Do something Backend Service Rule Pattern Send Bot Message Session Start Trigger command Return Result Return Message Return Message Chatbot Chatbot
19. 19 Ref: https://developers.line.biz/en/docs/messaging-api/message-types/ https://doc.stella.sanuker.com/docs/en/tg-message-types/ https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/send-messages/templates/ Chat Bot Message Type LINE Telegram FB Messenger
20. 20 Sounds good, but what if… - Security - Privacy - Policy - ..
21. 21 Ref: https://softnshare.com/rocket-chat- %E9%96%8B%E6%BA%90%E7%9A%84%E5%9C%98%E9%9A%8A%E5%8D%B3%E6%99%82%E9%80%9A% E8%A8%8A%E7%B3%BB%E7%B5%B1/ - The open source communication platform which is similar to Slack. - Support self-managed server installation and container platform - Support video, audio and screen sharing (Technical supported by WebRTC) - Provide iOS/Android Apps What is
22. 22 My Environment
23. 23 Ref: https://youtu.be/h7_SsYHu90g Use Case II: ChatOps with Ansible
24. 24 Ref: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/latest/html/towerapi/api_ref.html Integrate with API
25. 25 What‘s More?
26. linkedin.com/company/red-hat youtube.com/user/RedHatVideos facebook.com/redhatinc twitter.com/RedHat Q&A Time! 26