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It's running in a Kubernetes Cluster using the object definitions found in the k8s directory. Kubernetes is not required for operation, though. It can be run in any Docker or Docker-complaint container envrionment. During runtime, the bot will make use of the following environment variables:

DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN is your authentication token for the application/bot that you create on the Discord developer portal.
MC_CHECK_INTERVAL (optional) controls how frequently Phoebot will check for updated versions of packages.
PHOEBOT_DEBUG (optional) causes the bot to start up with debug log level instead of waiting for an operator to issue that command in chat. See "Console Logging" below.
STATE_FILENAME (defaults to /phoebot/phoebot-state.xml) allows you to use a different location for the state file for easier local development.

Developer Notes

Building Phoebot

Phoebot is written in Go and can be built with just the core Go language installed. The preferred development environment uses Bazel for building, testing, and deploying the bot. All you need to set up a local development environment is to install Bazel for your operating system.

The root level Makefile contains targets for common build operations.

make run will build and run the bot locally for testing.

make deploy is what I use to deploy the docker image to docker hub and update Kubernetes to run the new code. This will only work in my production environment. It's not set up to be generally useful.

Console Logging

You can send the command set loglevel to <level> on Discord to dynamically change the verbosity of the console logging. This is useful for debugging.

/data modify block x y z CustomName set value '{"text":"MOO"}'