hubot-ibmcloud-app-management

A hubot script for management of your the IBM Cloud apps.

Getting Started

• Usage
• Commands
• Hubot Adapter Setup
• Cognitive Setup
• Development
• License
• Contribute

Usage

Steps for adding this to your existing hubot:

1. cd into your hubot directory
2. Install the app management functionality with npm install hubot-ibmcloud-app-management --save
3. Add hubot-ibmcloud-app-management to your external-scripts.json
4. Add the necessary environment variables:

export HUBOT_BLUEMIX_API=<Bluemix API URL>
export HUBOT_BLUEMIX_ORG=<Bluemix Organization>
export HUBOT_BLUEMIX_SPACE=<Bluemix space>
export HUBOT_BLUEMIX_USER=<Bluemix User ID>
export HUBOT_BLUEMIX_PASSWORD=<Password for the Bluemix use>

5. Start up your bot & off to the races!

Commands

• hubot app help - Show available commands for app management.
• hubot app delete [app] - Delete an app.
• hubot app list - List apps.
• hubot app logs [app] - Show logs for an app.
• hubot app restage [app] - Restage an app.
• hubot app restart [app] - Restart an app.
• hubot app scale [app] - Scale an app to change instances, memory, and disk space.
• hubot app start [app] - Start an app.
• hubot app status [app] - Get status for an app.
• hubot app stop [app] - Stop an app.

Hubot Adapter Setup

Hubot supports a variety of adapters to connect to popular chat clients. For more feature rich experiences you can setup the following adapters:

• Slack setup
• Facebook Messenger setup

Cognitive Setup

This project supports natural language interactions using Watson and other Bluemix services. For more information on enabling these features, refer to Cognitive Setup.

Development

Please refer to the CONTRIBUTING.md before starting any work. Steps for running this script for development purposes:

Configuration Setup

1. Create config folder in root of this project.
2. Create env in the config folder, with the following contents:

export HUBOT_BLUEMIX_API=<Bluemix API URL>
export HUBOT_BLUEMIX_ORG=<Bluemix Organization>
export HUBOT_BLUEMIX_SPACE=<Bluemix space>
export HUBOT_BLUEMIX_USER=<Bluemix User ID>
export HUBOT_BLUEMIX_PASSWORD=<Password for the Bluemix use>

3. In order to view content in chat clients you will need to add hubot-ibmcloud-formatter to your external-scripts.json file. Additionally, if you want to use hubot-help to make sure your command documentation is correct. Create external-scripts.json in the root of this project

[
    "hubot-help",
    "hubot-ibmcloud-formatter"
]

4. Lastly, run npm install to obtain all the dependent node modules.

Running Hubot with Adapters

Hubot supports a variety of adapters to connect to popular chat clients.

If you just want to use:

• Terminal: run npm run start
• Slack: link to setup instructions
• Facebook Messenger: link to setup instructions

License

See LICENSE.txt for license information.

Contribute

Please check out our Contribution Guidelines for detailed information on how you can lend a hand.