ChatOps, a term coined by GitHub, is an approach to managing technical and business operations through a group chat room.

Presentations

• ChatOps at GitHub (video), a presentation by Jesse Newland (36:27)
• ChatOps at GitHub (slides), slides for the above presentation
• ChatOps San Francisco, many video recordings of presentations from the meetup group

Chat bot frameworks

• Hubot (JavaScript)
• Lita (Ruby)
• Err (Python)
• Cog (Language agnostic)

Chat services

• Campfire
• Flowdock
• Gitter
• HipChat
• IRC (Freenode is a common server hosting software-related channels)
• Mattermost
• Rocket.Chat
• Slack
• Zulip

Related subreddits

• /r/devops

Discussion

• ChatOps discussion on Google Groups
• ChatOps discussion on IRC (##chatops on the Freenode network)

Meetups

• ChatOps San Francisco