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https://github.com/ewohltman/ephemeral-roles

A Discord bot for managing ephemeral roles based upon voice channel member presence.
https://github.com/ewohltman/ephemeral-roles

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A Discord bot for managing ephemeral roles based upon voice channel member presence.

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# ephemeral-roles



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### A Discord bot for managing ephemeral roles based upon voice channel member presence.



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## Quickstart



1. Click on the `Ephemeral Roles` logo head above or use [this link](https://discordapp.com/api/oauth2/authorize?client_id=392419127626694676&permissions=268435456&scope=bot)

to invite `Ephemeral Roles` into your Discord server

    1. The 'Manage Roles' permission is required.  The invite link above

    provides that by automatically creating an appropriate role in your server

    for `Ephemeral Roles` 

2. Ensure the new role for `Ephemeral Roles` is at the top (or as near as

possible) to the server's list of roles

    1. If you're not sure how or why to do that, take a quick read over

    Discord's excellent [Role Management 101](https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/214836687-Role-Management-101) guide

3. Enjoy!



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## What does `Ephemeral Roles` do?



After the `Ephemeral Roles` bot is invited to your Discord server, it

immediately starts to watch for changes to your voice channels.  When a member

joins a channel, `Ephemeral Roles` automatically assigns that member an

*ephemeral role* associated with the channel.  If the *ephemeral role* doesn't

exist yet, `Ephemeral Roles` will create it.



By having your members auto-sorted into *ephemeral roles* in your member list,

it's clear to see who are available for chatting and the channels they are in.

This is because `Ephemeral Roles` leverages the Discord feature that the member

list in servers will group together members by role right out of the box.



When a member changes or disconnects from voice channels, even across Discord

servers, `Ephemeral Roles` will account for the change and automatically

revoke/reissue *ephemeral roles* as appropriate.



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## Example Usage



| Orange roles below are automatically managed by `Ephemeral Roles` |

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| ![Ephemeral Roles action example](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ewohltman/ephemeral-roles/master/web/static/action.gif) |

| ![Ephemeral Roles static example](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ewohltman/ephemeral-roles/master/web/static/static.png) |

| ![Ephemeral Roles example role list](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ewohltman/ephemeral-roles/master/web/static/roles.png) |



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## Monitoring



A **[Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/)** and **[Grafana](https://grafana.com/)** instance have been set up to monitor `Ephemeral Roles` metrics.



| [grafana.ephemeral-roles.net](http://grafana.ephemeral-roles.net/d/OqANQqtiz/ephemeral-roles-metrics?orgId=1&refresh=5s) |

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## Architecture



| Architectural Diagram |

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| ![Architecture](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ewohltman/ephemeral-roles/master/web/static/architecture.png) |

| Architectural diagram created with [draw.io](https://draw.io/) |



* `ephemeral-roles`:

  * Runs in a Kubernetes cluster as a StatefulSet of 10 Pods. Each Pod contains

    a running instance of the bot

  * A StatefulSet is used so that each Pod has a predictable name so that the

    bot instance can inform the Discord API which of the 10 Pods it is

  * The Discord API will assign a number of the total guilds (servers) to each

    of the bot instances to balance the load of managing the guild events

  * If any of the Pods stop running for whatever reason, the StatefulSet will

    automatically restart them

* `pod-bouncer` (https://github.com/ewohltman/pod-bouncer):

  * Runs in a Pod and is responsible for receiving alerts from

    `Prometheus`/`AlertManager` and to act upon them by automatically causing

    unhealthy Pods for `ephemeral-roles` to restart

* `ephemeral-roles-informer` (https://github.com/ewohltman/ephemeral-roles-informer):

  * Runs in a Pod and is responsible for collecting metrics from the

    `ephemeral-roles` instances to update search services such as

    [discord.bots.gg](https://discord.bots.gg/) and [top.gg](https://top.gg/)



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## Contributing to the project



Contributions are very welcome! Please follow the guidelines below:



* Open an issue describing the bug or enhancement

* Fork the `develop` branch and make your changes

  * Try to match current naming conventions as closely as possible

  * Try to keep changes small and incremental with appropriate new unit tests

* Create a Pull Request with your changes against the `develop` branch



This project is equipped with a full

[CI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration)

/

[CD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_deployment) pipeline:

 

* Linting and unit tests will be automatically run with the PR, providing

feedback if any additional changes need to be made

* Merge to `master` will automatically deploy the changes live