Webhook watcher service for automated deployments

A webhook watcher service for Boo's git repo. It is used for automated deployments

Prerequisites

1. Make sure go is installed
2. Installation steps here
3. Place the deploy.sh file under /home/ifkash
4. Make the deploy.sh executable by running chmod +x deploy.sh

Steps

1. The current user for this is ifkash
2. Place the webgook_server.go file under /home/ifkash
3. Build the executable

go build -o webhook_server webhook_server.go

4. Set up a systemd service to run the webhook server. Create a file /etc/systemd/system/webhook-server.service

[Unit]
Description=GitHub Webhook Server
After=network.target

[Service]
User=ifkash
WorkingDirectory=/home/ifkash
ExecStart=/home/ifkash/webhook_server
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

5. Reload the systemd daemon and restart the service

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl restart webhook-server

Setup GitHub Webhook

1. Go to repo settings, navigate to webhooks
2. Add/Edit a webhook
3. Set the payload URL to http://GCP_VM_IP:5000/webhook
4. Ensure the content type is set to application/json
5. Select "Just the push event" for the trigger

Monitor logs

To monitor logs for the systemd service

sudo journalctl -u webhook-server -f