Starter kit for running a Telegram bot (built with the python-telegram-bot library) on Openshift.

Instructions:

1. Register at Openshift. This starter kit works on Openshift online v2 and v3.
2. Create a Python3 application.
3. Add the following environment variables (for v2 only the TOKEN is needed):
   • TOKEN: your telegram bot token
   • APP_FILE: wsgi.py
   • OPENSHIFT_REPO_DIR: [base dir of the project], i.e. /opt/app-root/src
   • OPENSHIFT_GEAR_DNS: [domain of the app], see the hostname of the route
   • OPENSHIFT_PYTHON_IP: 0.0.0.0
   • OPENSHIFT_PYTHON_PORT: 8080
4. Complete the bot.py file with your handlers.
5. Put the wsgi.py file at the root of your app directory tree. The bot.py file can go anywhere as long as you update the import statement in the previous file.
6. Deploy everything to Openshift.