Creating and Using Jenkins Webhooks from Github

22 Jul 2023 - rich

Webhook is an http “callback”. When some event occurs, in our case in Github, an event notification occurs alerting Jenkins of the change and most probably triggering a pipeline job.

Some lingering questions you may have:

1. What if I have several repositories and I want to trigger a Jenkins job for each one.

   this isn’t a problem but most documentation out there uses the example involving ngrok.io - one example, replicated time and time again without much testing or embellishment.

   • ngrok will expose your jenkins host/port (https://localhost:8080) to the internet

   but how does Jenkins handle each of the webhooks?