Get Started with Heroku and Slack App Integration

Learn how to integrate Slack and Heroku

Introduction

Welcome to the Digital Frontier, where we’re saddling up to integrate Heroku with Slack and lasso some real-time updates, automated tasks, and user-friendly features for a cattle management system, Trail Boss. By the end of this ride, you’ll have the beginnings of an app to manage your own herd of cloud-based cattle, ready for anything the digital wilderness throws at you.

Workshop Goals

By the end of this Hands On Workshop, participants will:

• Deploy a Python Flask + Slack Bolt SDK application to Heroku.
• Configure Slack to interact with the application.
• Implement a Slack Workflow that triggers an automatic feed order reminder.

Prerequisites

• Python (version 3.13.2 used)
• Git / GitHub
• A Heroku account and the Heroku CLI installed locally.
• Access to a Slack workspace with a Pro or Business + Plan
• Code editor of your choice to view any needed code files.