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Online DevOps Dojo coach

The Online DevOps Dojo coach is here to make the DevOps learning experience even more enjoyable.

Actually the coach is a robot which allows you to interact with the "Charlie Veterinary Clinic" virtual team in the context of GitHub issues and pull requests.

One can imagine a lot of funny exchanges which at some point will require a genuine test pipeline!

Setup

How to Setup your custom instance of the robot.

High level architecture

Our implementation uses a GitHub application with Probot and upload an AWS Lambda function using GitHub Actions and Serverless.

Other architectures are of course possible without changing anything to the Probot application.
For example, we have another instance running in a container in Kubernetes. The GitHub workflow is replaced by a Jenkins pipeline and Serverless by a Helm chart.

Developing

DevOps Dojo Coach is a GitHub App built with Probot framework on Node.js. Its embedded logging API is
bunyan.

The custom bot code is fully contained in the file index.js.

The bot can be run locally with:

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Run the bot
npm start

More knowledge on building GitHub apps here.

Contributing

If you have suggestions for how the Dojo coach could be improved, or want to report a bug, open an issue or a PR! We'd love all and any contributions.

Roadmap

We are interested in adding the following features in the future:

• Replace the GitHub app / Lambda function by a GitHub action. This would remove dependencies, but will it be responsive enough?
• Add a test pipeline.