ChatOps Cloud Cost Control
The latest time-saving automation to add to your DevOps tool belt: ChatOps cloud cost control. That’s right — you may already be using ChatOps to make your life easier, but did you know that amongst the advantages, you can also use it to control your cloud resources?
Whatever communication platform you’re already using for chatting with your team members, you can use for chatting with your applications and services. And with the increasing rise of ChatOps, that brings us to one of the questions we’ve been getting asked more frequently by our DevOps users: how can I manage schedules and instances from Slack, Microsoft Teams, Atlassian Stride, and other chat programs?
One of the cool things you can do using ChatOps is control your cloud resources through ParkMyCloud. Learn how it’s done in this quick YouTube demo:
ParkMyCloud has the ability to send messages to chat rooms via notifications and receive commands from chat bots via the API. This video details the Slackbot specifically, but similar bots can be used with Microsoft Teams or Atlassian Stride. There are multiple settings you can configure within Slack to manage your account, including notifications to let you know when a schedule is shutting an instance down. You can also set up the ability to override a schedule and turn the system on from Slack. Watch the video and for a brief overview of how to:
- Set up a notification that uses the Slack type
- Adjust settings to be notified of user actions, parking actions, policy actions, and more
- Set up the ParkMyCloud Slackbot to respond to notifications
Once you set up Slack with ParkMyCloud, you’ll be able to do anything you normally would in the UI or API, including snooze and toggle instances to override their schedules, receive notifications and be able to control your account directly from your Slack chat room. The Slackbot is available on our GitHub. Give it a try, and enjoy full ChatOps control of your cloud costs!
Originally published at www.parkmycloud.com on April 26, 2018.
