Faster CICD with Dialogflow chatbot

Dialogflow messenger UI when integrated
Git repo ai-in-action
Gitlab CICD pipeline consisting 3 stages
DIalogflow Showing available actions to perform
GitLab CICD pipelines
Dialogflow Trigger pipeline action selected

Inspiration

I was always curious and fascinated about chatbot. Played with chatbot builder Dialogflow earlier. I always wanted to build something useful with AI chatbot

What it does

It triggers CICD pipeline in GitLab from a remote chatbot through web or Mobile phone

How I built it

I used Dialogflow CX an NLU backed AI technology to build an interface which will allow user/devs to trigger a CICD pipeline at GitLab via an API call using access token generated at GitLab end. I used Webhooks behind Dialogflow chatbot to trigger these API.

Challenges I ran into

My Google cloud platform account email is not a workplace email so even if I make necessary configurations I was unable to use Dialogflow integrations in the project to give a public access to chatbot I built as GCP doesn't allow private emails (mine is a gmail email ID) to read from Google chat API even If I enable it. Still I have deployed a Dialogflow messenger bot which can be accessed at http://13.234.189.236/ but its just UI. Apart from this I was able to develop project as soon as possible