lindorff/slack-jira-bot

Slack bot fetching Jira ticket info

slack-jira-bot

Slack-jira-bot is a simple Slack bot that listens to all Slack channels it's invited to. When it notices a JIRA ticket id in the channel, it fetches information about that ticket from JIRA and sends that info to a thread where it noticed the ticket id.

Running

$ npm install
$ npm start

Of course, that won't get much done for you, so read on how to connect your bot to Slack and JIRA.

Configuring Slack

Create your Slack App here https://api.slack.com/apps?new_app=1. Add bot user for that app. For this app to work you need scopes bot and search:read. You can add the scopes from OAuth & Permissions page. You will also get your Bot User OAuth Access Token from that page.

JIRA OAuth

You will need OAuth token for Jira to be able to use this bot. Access token can be created by following instructions from here https://developer.atlassian.com/server/jira/platform/oauth/

In config file you have to configure four things. You find most of the values from the file config.properties that you can find from target directory of your Java project.

• jiraToken: access_token in config.properties
• jiraTokenSecret: secret in config.properties
• jiraConsumerKey: consumer_key in config.properties
• jiraPrivateKeyFile: Path to file containing private key in PEM format. If you followed instructions this should be in file called jira_privatekey.pem

Running with Docker

After you have configured your bot, you can use also Docker to run it. Just build your image and run it e.g.

$ docker build -t slack-jira-bot .
$ docker run slack-jira-bot

Note that your JIRA private key file should be somewhere inside your project directory in order to access that inside Docker process.