Managing Your Robot and Adding Extensions

Gopherbot robots are designed to be remotely administered and updated, for common cases where a robot runs behind network firewalls, in virtual cloud networks, or in a container environment. Many of the frequently desired updates - such as changing the schedule of an automated job - can be safely and easily updated by pushing a commit to your robot's repository and instructing it to update. More significant updates can be tested by modelling with the terminal connector before committing and saving, then updating your production robot.

This chapter covers:

• How to update your robot with git
• The two primary ways to set up a dev environment
• Gopherbot CLI commands

You should have a robot deployed "in production" (connected to your team chat) to work the examples in the following sections.