ChatOps
Combine automation with oversight to maximize uptime and reliability and decrease incident response times.
How DevOps uses Mattermost
High-performance development teams put Mattermost at the heart of their daily operations. Bring people, systems data, and workflows together to power collaboration at every stage of the DevOps lifecycle.
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Mattermost enables DevOps workflows
Many DevOps workflows rely on real-time collaboration. Teams use messaging to increase efficiency during critical moments—provisioning infrastructure, merging code branches, or addressing urgent bugs. Mattermost unifies people, tools, systems data, and automations to help your organization perform at its best.
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Ops Theater
During an outage, the team can monitor progress and help test fixes in real time.
Social Coding
Distributed, virtual teams collaborate on code snippets, share feedback, and discuss technical approaches.
Notifications Hub
A single source of truth and centralized repository helps everyone stay updated and on the same page.
War Rooms
Dedicated channels give visibility to issues as they arise and bring teams together to resolve them.
Observation & Coaching
Managers and mentors review workstreams to help improve communication and provide feedback.
Mattermost drives the DevOps lifecycle
Messaging lies at the core of DevOps teamwork. It’s the place where workflows converge, critical interactions happen, and decisions are made. Mattermost makes your workstream collaboration even more powerful by enabling integrations with your team’s existing DevOps tools and systems.
Mattermost supports custom workflows
Mattermost integrates easily with popular DevOps tools, such as Jira, Jenkins, GitLab, Trac, Redmine, and Bitbucket. Dozens of open source integrations are available for free, including interactive bot applications, such as Hubot and mattermost-bot, as well as other communications tools.
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Here’s how you can try out Mattermost
Once you’ve downloaded Mattermost, you need a group of users to try it out. Why not run a short trial to see if the platform is a good fit for your DevOps organization. Here’s a short list of steps to set up and run your trial:
- Identify the team - Identify a DevOps team to participate in your Mattermost trial. We recommend including one or more members involved in each stage of the DevOps lifecycle.
- Create a team - Create a team in Mattermost for your trial and give it a name.
- Set up channels - Consider channel names that correspond to specific projects, such as "~android release" or "~feature beta"; key areas of responsibility, such as "~engineers" or "~quality assurance"; or key activities, such as "~release testing" or "~design review.".
- Onboard team members - Invite trial members to create an account and join your trial team.
- Install an integration - Consider integrating your team’s favorite DevOps tool. If you have time, integrate more!
- Try it out - Have your pilot team trial Mattermost through one full cycle. Whether it be a sprint or a release, encourage the team to collaborate and interact as much as possible within Mattermost to maximize their exposure.
- Scale your team - Launch Mattermost more broadly within your organization - onboard more teams, integrate more tools, build custom workflows.
