Webhooks for Automated Updates [B]

In most software projects, there is a tremendous focus on increasing efficiency and reliability. Rolling updates in Kubernetes is a really good example of how real-time updates to applications can be …

In most software projects, there is a tremendous focus on increasing efficiency and reliability. Rolling updates in Kubernetes is a really good example of how real-time updates to applications can be made reliable, without any downtime. Once you have a reliable system, you then need to make your software development process even more efficient. A key component in efficiency is automation. Automated builds on Docker cloud are a great way to efficiently build images when new code is pushed. In this talk we will discuss how we can take automation one step further. We will make use of the Kuberbnetes API calls, along with Docker Hub’s webhooks feature, to automatically start rolling updates of deployments when a new image/tag is pushed to Docker Hub. We will demonstrate how you can write a micro-service that will make these calls after consuming the data pushed by Docker Hub’s webhook.