Swimmy

Swimmy is a Swimlane Slack bot written in Python to interact with your Swimlane instance.

Currently Swimmy has the following capabilities:

• workspaces, assets, applications, plugins, packages, users, health, help
• search [search_string] # typically an IOC
• get record [tracking_id]
• get [acronym] tasks
• create [acronym] record

When using the search command Swimmy is configured to return the first {Config.search_results_max_results} results.

Getting Started

In order to use Swimmy you will need to create a Slack application and gather authentication credentials for Swimlane.

You will need, at a minimum, the following before you can setup Swimmy:

• Slack bot token
• Slack bot signing secret
• Swimlane hostname
• Swimlany authentication credentials
  • Swimlane Personal Access Token with access to call the Swimlane API or
  • Swimlane username and password for an account that can call the Swimlane API

Once you have gathered these values you must create a .env including these (and other) configuration settings

Creating a Slack Application

The first step is to edit the provided Slack Application Manifest. The only piece you will need to modify is the location where Swimmy is running (including port).

You can find more information about Slack Application Manifests here

The url must be in the following format:

https://{your_ip_or_domain}:3000/slack/events

Please note that currently it requires the address to have https. Please make sure that your address has this in the manifest. After it is upload you can modify this back to http in the Slash Commands section of the application.

Once you have edited the manifest then navigate to this page Slack Application to create an application for Slcak.

Select Create New App and select From an app manifest and copy your edited manifest into the manifest window.

Then select the correct environment to add Swimmy and select Next

Copy your edited manifest into the manifest window.

Review the OAuth scopes and select Create.

Next install your app to the selected workspace by selecting Install to Workspace

After installing Swimmy you then need to scroll down and save the Signing Secret value in a safe place. We will be using this when we deploy Swimmy.

Keep scrolling and at the bottom of the page under Display Information click on location of the applications logo under App icon & preview and upload the Swimmy Application Icon.

Next select the OAuth & Permissions section under Features. You may have to select Generate Tokens. Please do that now and then capture the Bot User OAuth Token. We will be using this when we deploy Swimmy.

That is it!

Additional Steps

If you modified the URL to your environment in the Slack manifest with https then we need to do one more thing.

Go to the Slash Commands section under Features

And click the pencil to edit your /swimmy slash command. When prompted edit the URL back to http and click save.

Now your are done!

Swimlane Setup

The first thing you need in order to use Swimmy is a set of credentials to access the Swimlane API. You will need authentication credentials for your Swimlane instance. This can be a Personal Access Token (recommended) or username and password with API access to your Swimlane instance.

If you are using a Swimlane instance that is Docker based (deployed using docker-compose) then you can use the provided docker-compose.override.yml file.

Additionally, this docker-compose.override.yml file expects that swimmy is located at /opt/swimmy.

To do so you must first copy or clone the Swimmy repository to

/opt/swimmy

Next you will need to copy the docker-compose.override.yml to /opt/swimlane/docker-compose.override.yml. You will also need to copy your .env file to /opt/swimlane/.env. Once this is done then you can stand up your Swimlane instance running docker-compose up -d

Prerequisites

In order to use this bot you will need to make sure you have cloned the repository and made a copy of swimmy's configuration file.

git clone https://github.com/swimlane/swimmy.git
cd swimmy
cp .env.example .env

Configuration Settings

The following are the avialble list of configuration settings for Swimmy. In order to use this project you must copy the .env.example file and create a new .env file. Next you will need to update this .env file with your configuration values.

Update the .env file with your tokens and credentials.

SLACK_BOT_TOKEN=some_token
SLACK_BOT_SIGNING_SECRET=some_signing_secret

SWIMLANE_HOST=https://my.orgs.swimlane.instance 
SWIMLANE_USERNAME=username
SWIMLANE_PASSWORD=some_password
#SWIMLANE_ACCESS_TOKEN=or_some_access_token
SWIMLANE_VERIFY_SSL="False"
#SWIMLANE_VERIFY_SERVER_VERSION="False"
#SWIMLANE_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT=300
#SWIMLANE_RESOURCE_CACHE_SIZE=0
#SWIMLANE_WRITE_TO_READ_ONLY="False"

SWIMLANE_SEARCH_RESULTS_MAX_RESULTS=10

Deployment

To begin running this project simply run:

docker-compose up 

Built With

• carcass - Python packaging template

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning.

Authors

• Josh Rickard - Initial work - MSAdministrator
• Nick Tausek - Swimmy Logo Concept nikkuman

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details