Creating our Slack application

For the bot to interact with Slack, we need to set up a Slack application:

1. Navigate to https://api.slack.com/apps on your browser.

Here, you will need to click on the following button:

Figure 11.2 – Create New App button

You will then be presented with the following dialog box:

Figure 11.3 – Create an app options

2. Choose the From an app manifest option. This will present the following:

Figure 11.4 – Choosing a workspace

3. Choose the workspace you created at the beginning of this section and then press Create App. Click the Next button.
4. Copy the text from the file present at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Go-for-DevOps/tree/rev0/chapter/11/chatbot/slack.manifest and paste it onto the screen that is shown as follows as YAML:

Figure 11.5 – App manifest configuration

5. The text you see in...