![]() It's the place your team works online, where everything from important decisions to casual chats happen. ![]() Your team chat app is one of your company's most important tools. It originally appeared on the Mattermost blog. ( Editor’s note: This post was written by Christian Johannsen, Solution Architect at Mattermost. You can also use it to ensure that employees using an old chat platform can communicate with users on your newly deployed Mattermost instance. You can use Matterbridge to migrate users from one of the supported platforms to Mattermost without losing any of your older chats. ![]() The open source tool can be installed with a few simple commands. Matterbridge, a self-hosted Go application, was created by Wim to serve as a bridge between Mattermost and IRC, Gitter, XMPP, Slack, Discord, Telegram, Rocket.Chat, Hipchat (via XMPP), Steam, Twitch, ssh-chat, Zulip and Matrix with REST API. If you use any of these systems, you can keep your team happy on your familiar platform while keeping the folks on Mattermost up-to-date. Set up Matterbridge as a service, a Docker container or even a Mattermost plugin.Ĭurrently, Matterbridge supports several different messaging protocols and chat solutions (e.g., XMPP, Discord, Telegram, Slack and IRC). ![]() Now that Matterbridge is configured, start it up: ] name=”mygateway” enable=true ] account=”slack.clickedways” channel=”testchannel” ] account=”mattermost.work” channel=”slack-synced” 3. Server=”MATTERMOST:8065″ NoTLS=true Team=”dach” Login=”USERNAME” sd Password=”PASSWORD” PrefixMessagesWithNick=true RemoteNickFormat=” “ Token=”TOKEN” PrefixMessagesWithNick=true Once that’s done, your configuration file should look like this: If you want everything that’s posted in a Slack channel available in a Mattermost channel (Slack-synced), you first need to create the Slack API token (instructions here). Now that the Matterbridge binary is available, configuration can begin. Start configuring the Matterbridge binary Create a virtual machine to host MatterbridgeĪfter setting up Go, grab the binaries using:Ĭd $GOPATH go get /42wim/matterbridge 2. Solutionįor the purposes of this Recipe, we will focus on migrating from Slack to Mattermost. You could always use webhooks and write a plugin.īut there’s an easier way forward: a tool called Matterbridge, which allows you to create a link between tools like Slack and Hipchat to Mattermost so you can migrate without losing your data. In either case, organizations start wondering how to keep an existing chat system up and running while establishing Mattermost as their new workstream collaborationsolution because they don’t want to lose their existing chats or force everyone to the new platform overnight. In most cases, this is either due to financial considerations (e.g, “ We already paid for it!”) or organizational challenges (e.g., “We can’t move everybody to Mattermost immediately!”). Others have sophisticated collaboration platforms and need to keep two or more systems up and running while they migrate to Mattermost. Most Mattermost prospects and customers have used a tool for simple chat in the past. If there’s a Recipe you want us to cook up in the future, drop us a line on our forum. The goal of these posts is to provide you with a solution to a specific problem, a discussion about the details of the solution and some tips about how to customize it to suit your needs perfectly. Here’s the next installment in our Mattermost Recipes series. Mattermost Recipe: How to sync existing chat systems with Mattermost
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