We made this slackbot to allow folks to apply for admission into private affinity groups within a Slack workspace without forcing a public point of contact for the group to out themselves.

To work with the slackbot & test locally, you'll need:

• Python 3.6 or higher
  • Poetry
• Some linting is performed by pre-commit, so don't forget to pre-commit install

Install dependencies with command poetry install and keep them up-to-date with poetry lock.

To spin up the code locally, build the docker image via docker build -t affinity:latest . and docker run -p 9000:8080 affinity:latest

You can run the tests from project root with command poetry run pytest.

For Truss's instance of this bot, we have configured this to happen automatically on new commits to the main branch. GitHub Actions will build and push the docker image to an ECR repository in the trussworks-prod AWS account. In order to redeploy the lambda with the new image, you must copy and replace the image uri of the latest image into the Terraform located in trussworks-prod/affinity-groups-slackbot/main.tf for local.image_uri then apply.