Combining - OpenWhisk (serverless) - Open API (swagger) - API Connect - IBM Watson - Slack API - IBM Bluemix - IBM Cloudant to build powerful APIs !!!

1. Combining
OpenWhisk (serverless),
Open API (swagger) and
IBM API Connect to build
powerful APIs
Joe Sepi
Lead Developer Evangelist ⚡ StrongLoop/IBM
@joe_sepi

2. Combining
OpenWhisk (serverless),
Open API (swagger),
IBM API Connect, Watson cognitive
services and Slack integrations to
build powerful APIs
Joe Sepi
Lead Developer Evangelist ⚡ StrongLoop/IBM
@joe_sepi

3. Combining
OpenWhisk (serverless),
Open API (swagger),
IBM API Connect, Watson cognitive
services, Slack integrations, Cloudant
NoSQL database and Bluemix to build
powerful APIs
Joe Sepi
Lead Developer Evangelist ⚡ StrongLoop/IBM
@joe_sepi

4. Combining
OpenWhisk (serverless),
Open API (swagger),
IBM API Connect, Watson cognitive
services, Slack integrations, Cloudant
NoSQL database and Bluemix to easily
assemble useful and convenient
integrations backed by powerful APIs
Joe Sepi
Lead Developer Evangelist ⚡ StrongLoop/IBM
@joe_sepi

5. Agenda
• What are these technologies?
• What was my inspiration?
• How easy is this stuff?
• What’s behind the scenes?
• What am I working on?
• What are you working on?

6. That’s me.
playing guitar
@joe_sepi

12. My Inspiration

17. Steps
1.Setup Cloudant for keeping track of Slack app
installations
2.Deploy through the command line OpenWhisk
actions that drive the Slack integrations
3.Create Slack App and configure interactions
4.Create an API Connect instance to import Open API
file which exposes the OpenWhisk actions to Slack
5.Finalize Slack configuration and add to Slack org

18. Create a Cloudant Instance

19. Create DB and Design Document

20. Service Credentials
You’ll need these in next step…

21. The results from deploying our
OpenWhisk Actions
Things look ok

25. Slack App Credentials
We’ll need these later…

26. Create an API Connect Instance

27. Import Open API
There are our three endpoints for Slack

28. Open Whisk and Slack
Credentials
Note the save icon and the three dots for menu

29. API Connect Base URL
Save me for the next step

30. https://api.us.apiconnect.ibmcloud.com/yourorg-yourspace/sb
/api/slack/oauth

31. Verify that Request URL ✅
Same Base URL but with /api/slack/event

32. Slack Slash
Commands

33. Adding to Slack
This is where we are actually adding our
bot to a Team

34. Hey Fred, you said…
It works!

36. Open API

37. Deploy Script

38. OpenWhisk
JS FTW!

41. Combining
Open Whisk (serverless),
OpenAPI (swagger) and
API Connect to build powerful
APIs
Joe Sepi
Lead Developer Evangelist ⚡ StrongLoop/IBM
@joe_sepi