chlorobot

C++ IRC bot with a gRPC-connected Python command handler

Environment files

At the bare minimum, Chlorobot requires a .env file. You can set the RPC token to anything, just keep it safe.

CHLOROBOT_NICKNAME=ExampleBotNick
CHLOROBOT_IDENT=ExampleIdent
CHLOROBOT_REALNAME=Example Bot Real Name
CHLOROBOT_SASL_USERNAME=your-botuser-here
CHLOROBOT_SASL_PASSWORD=your-password-here
CHLOROBOT_NETWORK_HOST=irc.libera.chat
CHLOROBOT_NETWORK_PORT=6697
CHLOROBOT_OWNER=owner-irc-cloak-here
CHLOROBOT_RPC_TOKEN=random_value_for_rpc_token
CHLOROBOT_RPC_SERVER=chlorobot-rpc

You can load that in Docker Compose, CHLOROBOT_RPC_SERVER should be chlorobot-rpc unless the RPC server variable is actually edited in the docker-compose.yml file.

Docker Compose commands

Chloresolver is just an example of a Python resolver that connects to the C++ core's gRPC endpoint. By default, the Chlorobot gRPC server is assigned hostname chlorobot-rpc.

Important

The bot core will bind to 0.0.0.0 by default for gRPC, so use a firewall.

Future bot core versions might make this an environment variable.

Managing the bot

Starting its C++ core and all dependencies

C++ core updates are rare, unless something arises.

$ docker-compose build # if you need to rebuild it
$ docker-compose up

Hot swapping the Python resolver

The Python resolver can be swapped out with a different resolver, but here are the commands you need to rebuild and restart the resolver.

The core will ping the IRC server, so the connection should not go down.

$ docker-compose down chloresolver # if it hasn't crashed
$ docker-compose up -d --build chloresolver