Operator

Operator is a tool that for creating and maintaining ChatOps commands. It's built around a few opinions on how to do that:

• Chat is just an interface to an automation server.
• Authentication and authorization rules are enforced server-side.
• The clients communicate with the server via a language-agnostic RPC protocol.
• Clients do not have access (account identifiers, tokens, ...) to the resources being automated. Only the server does.
• All operations are logged to an audit log and can always be attributed to an human or machine entity.
• There is at least one alternative client with the exact same feature set. This ensures that the chat bot is not a SPOF.

Checkout the chatoops project for a complete example. It demonstrates how to describe and implement an automation server and generate Hubot scripts and commond-line client.

DISCLAIMER: I have not used this in production yet. Consider this is a early preview release. Ping @sr on Twitter or open an issue if you have any question or feedback.