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What are Slackbots? A Slackbot is a type of Slack App designed to interact with users via conversation. It can access the same range of APIs and do all of the magical things that a Slack App can do. The slack bot can take a name, a face, and a personality, and encourage users to talk to it. The Slackbot can send DMs, it can be mentioned by users, it can post messages or upload files, and it can be invited to channels – or kicked out. A little background on SlackOps for Spinnaker Spinnaker supports Slack notifications natively. These notifications provide updates to users about the situation in your pipeline. For example, we can configure it to notify your SREs about a scheduled deployment. This gives them a heads-up that something is changing, which can make a big difference when troubleshooting support issues from our users. Why use SlackOps on Spinnaker? These notifications are very helpful to let you know what’s going on with your pipelines. For example, at Netflix, the Spinnaker team itself uses Slack notifications to alert team members who are on-call that a deployment is happening to a service in production, and whether it was completed successfully. This gives them a heads-up that something is changing, which can make a big difference when troubleshooting support issues from our users. The screenshot below shows examples of these kinds of notifications: