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For us at Phaser (https://phasersec.com) chatops was a revolution.

1) git push master (Gitlab CI to run tests, builds...)

2) notification received when CI pipelines finished

3) @bot deploy api production (in our messaging app)

if errors happen:

4) @bot rollback api [commit]

We had a similar workflow in a company I worked for some months ago, but for deploy the bot expected upvotes from both development, QA, and Ops.

Nice! on our side, it use a confirm slack button (https://api.slack.com/docs/message-buttons)

How do you deal with migrating database schema and data?

for the moment, there is a API little downtime to migrate the schema.

We use sequelize-cli (event if it's not our ORM) because we can script migrations using javascript which is very powerfull!