Serious Fun with Hubot

For our project, I setup an Hubot on a micro instance on Compute Engine to help us both have fun and do serious stuff.

For those who don’t know Hubot, it’s a bot written in CoffeeScript that reacts to commands you send him. We choose to plug it to our Campfire chat room. That way Hubot can tell us when a commit is done on Bitbucket, when Jenkins fails (although Jenkins has been down for months on our project…), when the production is being redeployed with ansible.

But hubot is not just about work. It’s also very handy when you need to translate a word, send a random kitten image to the team or add a mustache to any image. The bot also knows how to congratulate us when somebody behaves like a boss

On my todo list, I need to teach Hubot to redeploy environnements by himself and monitor our production.