Chapter 6. Creating a secret for a generic or GitHub webhook You can create a secret that you can use with a generic or GitHub webhook to trigger application builds in a Git repository. Depending on the type of Git hosting platform that you use for your application code, the JWS Operator provides a genericWebhookSecret parameter and a githubWebhookSecret parameter that you can use to specify the secret in the custom resource file for a web application. Procedure Create an encoded secret string: Create a file named, for example, secret.txt . In the secret.txt file, enter the secret string in plain text. For example: To encode the string, enter the following command: The preceding command displays the encoded string. For example: Create a secret.yaml file that defines an object of kind Secret . For example: In the preceding example, jws-secret is the name of the secret and cXdlcnR5Cg== is the encoded secret string. To create the secret, enter the following command: The preceding command displays a message to confirm that the secret is created. For example: Verification Get the URL for the webhook: The preceding command generates the webhook URL in the following format: Create a minimal JSON file named, for example, payload.json : To send a request to the webhook, enter the following curl command: In the preceding example, payload.json is the name of the minimal JSON file you have created. Replace <host> , <port> , <namespace> , and <name> in the URL string with values that are appropriate for your environment. Replace <secret> with the name of the secret you have created for the webhook. The preceding command generates the following type of webhook response in JSON format: Additional resources Webhook Triggers JWS Operator CRD parameters

Commands:
qwerty
base64 secret.txt
cXdlcnR5Cg==
kind: Secret apiVersion: v1 metadata: name: jws-secret data: WebHookSecretKey: cXdlcnR5Cg==
create -f secret.yaml
secret/jws-secret created
describe BuildConfig | grep webhooks
https:// <host>:<port> /apis/build.openshift.io/v1/namespaces/ <namespace> /buildconfigs/ <name> /webhooks/ <secret> /generic
curl -H "X-GitHub-Event: push" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -k -X POST --data-binary @payload.json https:// <host>:<port> /apis/build.openshift.io/v1/namespaces/ <namespace> /buildconfigs/ <name> /webhooks/ <secret> /generic
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