Company
Date Published
Author
Arturo Aparicio
Word count
568
Language
English
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None

Summary

Artifactory, a repository manager crucial for CI/CD pipelines, now supports webhooks, allowing for enhanced automation by triggering notifications based on predefined events. A webhook consists of a triggering event, the event's data payload, and a listening web location, enabling seamless communication between teams, such as notifying a build server when a new Docker tag is available. This setup eliminates the need for manual intervention across teams, which may use different servers or be geographically dispersed. Artifactory's webhook functionality is facilitated by a versatile plugin available on GitHub, offering numerous configuration options and the ability to customize with Groovy code. Installation is straightforward, requiring no restart of Artifactory, with the reload plugins API call available for updates. In addition to automating CI/CD tasks, webhooks can enhance human workflows, such as sending notifications to a Slack channel when a new build is published or alerting users to changes in protected repositories.