Nautobot ChatOps Using Slack Walk-Through Video

A network source of truth should provide easy access to its information for both automation and people. Nautobot’s GraphQL and RESTful API support allow for automation access. Nautobot’s ChatOps App is one way to address the need for people to have easy and convenient capabilities to access and modify Nautobot’s information. Keeping in mind Nautobot is also an App Platform, this ChatOps App enables users to also create custom chat commands enabling Nautobot as a chat server so you can chat and communicate with any other IT system.

A Complete, End-to-End Walk-Through Video

This week, Network to Code published a complete video walk-through that covers getting Nautobot’s ChatOps App up and running in Slack.

This video is meant to be a comprehensive guide, covering each stage in the setup:

• Creating a free Slack workspace (if you don’t have one already)
• Defining the chatbot application in Slack
• Configuring the Nautobot server to support Slack ChatOps
• Granting access to the Slack chatbot in Nautobot’s web UI
• Running multiple Nautobot instances in a single Slack channel

Whether you watch this video at normal speed and follow along, or you watch at 1.5x or 2x to get a general feel for the process, the goal is for you to be up and running with Nautobot ChatOps in Slack in about 30 minutes!

A Growing List of Nautobot Chatops Resources

This comprehensive video walk-through covering standing up Nautobot chatops in Slack is the most recent addition to Network to Code’s Nautobot ChatOps resources:

• Network to Code Slack workspace:
  • #nautobot: This channel is meant for all things Nautobot, including questions about ChatOps
  • #nautobot-chat: This channel lets you interact with a functional Nautobot chatbot via /nautobot
  • Please feel free to ask questions: we are here to help!
  • http://slack.networktocode.com/
• ChatOps Github Repository: https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot-plugin-chatops
• Network to Code blogs:
  • Creating Custom Chat Commands Using Nautobot ChatOps
  • Setting Up Nautobot Chatops with Microsoft Teams