github-releases-notifier

Receive Slack notifications if a new release of your favorite software is available on GitHub or Gitlab.

Watching repositories

To watch repositories simply add them to the list of arguments -r=github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes -r=gitlab.com/tezos/tezos and so on.

Deploying

1. Get a URL to send WebHooks to your Slack from https://api.slack.com/incoming-webhooks.
2. Get a token for scraping GitHub: https://help.github.com/.

Docker

docker run --rm -e GITHUB_AUTH_TOKEN=XXX GITLAB_AUTH_TOKEN=YYY -e SLACK_HOOK=https://hooks.slack.com/... justwatch/github-releases-notifier -r=github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes

docker-compose

1. Change into the deployments/ folder.
2. Open docker-compose.yml
3. Change the token in the environment section to the ones obtained above.
4. docker-compose up

Kubernetes

kubectl create secret generic github-releases-notifier \
        --from-literal=github=XXX \
        --from-literal=gitlab=XXX \
        --from-literal=slack=XXX

After creating the secret with your credentials you can apply the deployment:

kubectl apply -f deployments/kubernetes.yml

That's it.