On Discord AI Chat Bot - Part 1

In this blog post series, I will be discussing the steps of building a AI Chat Bot on Discord using Google Cloud Platform’s (GCP) AI services, then deploy on the chat bot on GKE.

Part 1 focuses on the set up for the discord bot and GCP, part 2 will discuss the integration of Vertex AI with the discord bot inclucding code implementation and part 3 will focus on RAG implementation.

To follow through the code here.

Discord Bot Setup

1 - Go to Discord Developer Portal and create a new application.

2 - Add the Bot Permission

3 - Generate the URL link to add the bot to the channel

4 - Add needed intents to the Bot

Below are optional if interested.

5 - Turn on developer mode on your Discord app, we will need to have developer mode turned on in order to get different ids.

6 - Setting description of Bot using slash commands

On Discord server > Server Settings > Integration > Find your BOT > Commands section > Right click to the Command ID

On Developer Portal > Choose your BOT > Paste the text as below in the Description

7 - Github integration with Discord

a. In discord add an integration, and copy webhook URL b. At the discord repo, settings > add repo c. Paste in the webhook URL and append /github to the end. Select “Send me everything”, set the type to application/json, and then Add Webhook

GCP cli Setup

1 - Download cloud SDK https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/install

2 - Navigate to the google-cloud-sdk dir and run

./install.sh

3 - Follow the steps in terminal inputting Y/N

4 - Restart your terminal

5 - On Local Terminal run

gcloud auth login

6 - Run

gcloud config set project gcp-prj-id-123

7 - To install GKE related cli, run

gcloud config set project gke-gcloud-auth-plugin

8 - To verify above step, run

gke-gcloud-auth-plugin --version

9 - Run

gcloud container clusters get-credentials autopilot-cluster --region us-central1 --project gcp-prj-id-123

10 - Check various info of GKE

k get namespace

k -n namespace get pods

11 - If intersted in other componenets

gcloud components list --show-versions

12 - Auth of aritfacts registry

gcloud auth configure-docker us-central1-docker.pkg.dev

Check artifects

gcloud container images list-tags us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/gcp-prj-id-123/repo/deployed-app
gcloud container images list-tags us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/gcp-prj-id-123/repo/deployed-app --sort-by=TIMESTAMP

gcloud artifacts docker images list us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/gcp-prj-id-123/repo

GCP Project Setup

1 - Enable both Vertex API, Generative Language API and Cloud Logging API

2 - Add a repo in Artifact Registry that will be used for deployment

3 - Create a GKE cluster

gcloud container clusters create autopilot-cluster \
--machine-type n1-standard-4 \
--num-nodes 1 \
--region "us-central1"

4 - Create a namespace on the cluster, here we will be using the namespace “automations”

k create ns automations

5 - Create a service account for the application with sufficient role and bind it to the namespace

Create SVC account in k8s cluster

# Create SVC account in k8s cluster
k create serviceaccount discordbot-sa \
    --namespace automations

Create GCP service account

# Create gcp service account
gcloud iam service-accounts create discordbot \
    --project=gcp-proj-id-123
"projects/gcp-proj-id-123/serviceAccounts/discordbot@gcp-proj-id-123.iam.gserviceaccount.com"

Add roles to GCP SVC

# Add role to gcp svc
gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding gcp-proj-id-123 \
    --member "serviceAccount:discordbot@gcp-proj-id-123.iam.gserviceaccount.com" \
    --role "roles/iam.serviceAccountAdmin"

# Add all role to gcp svc
gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding gcp-proj-id-123 \
    --member "serviceAccount:discordbot@gcp-proj-id-123.iam.gserviceaccount.com" \
    --role "roles/iam.serviceAccountAdmin" \
    --role "roles/container.admin" \
    --role "roles/secretmanager.admin" \
    --role "roles/secretmanager.secretAccessor" \
	--role "roles/aiplatform.user"

Binding

# Binding
gcloud iam service-accounts add-iam-policy-binding discordbot@gcp-proj-id-123.iam.gserviceaccount.com \
    --role roles/iam.workloadIdentityUser \
    --member "serviceAccount:gcp-proj-id-123.svc.id.goog[automations/discordbot-sa]"

Verify

# Verify
gcloud iam service-accounts get-iam-policy discordbot@gcp-proj-id-123.iam.gserviceaccount.com

And that’s it! We now have a Discord Bot and a GCP project configured. In the next blog post, I will be discussing the implementation of the AI services and the deployment of the bot on GKE.

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