GitWebhookProxy

A proxy to let webhooks to reach a Jenkins instance running behind a firewall

PROBLEM

Jenkins is awesome and matchless tool for both CI & CD; but unfortunately its a gold mine if left in wild with wide open access; so, we always want to put it behind a firewall. But when we put it behind firewall then webhooks don't work anymore and no one wants the pull based polling but rather prefer the build to start as soon as there is a commit!

SOLUTION

This little proxy makes webhooks start working again!

Supported Providers

Currently we support the following git providers out of the box:

• Github
• Gitlab

Configuration

GitWebhookProxy can be configured by providing the following arguments either via command line or via environment variables:

Parameter	Description	Default	Example
listenAddress	Address on which the proxy listens.	:8080	127.0.0.1:80
upstreamURL	URL to which the proxy requests will be forwarded (required)		https://someci-instance-url.com/webhook/
secret	Secret of the Webhook API. If not set validation is not made.		iamasecret
provider	Git Provider which generates the Webhook	github	github or gitlab
allowedPaths	Comma-Separated String List of allowed paths on the proxy		/project or github-webhook/,project/
ignoredUsers	Comma-Separated String List of users to ignore while proxying Webhook request		someuser
allowedUsers	Comma-Separated String List of users to allow while proxying Webhook request		someuser

DEPLOYING TO KUBERNETES

The GitWebhookProxy can be deployed with vanilla manifests or Helm Charts.

Vanilla Manifests

For Vanilla manifests, you can either first clone the respository or download the deployments/kubernetes/gitwebhookproxy.yaml file only.

Configuring

Below mentioned attributes in gitwebhookproxy.yaml have been hard coded to run in our cluster. Please make sure to update values of these according to your own configuration.

1. Change below mentioned attribute's values in Ingress in gitwebhookproxy.yaml

 rules:
  - host: gitwebhookproxy.example.com

  tls:
  - hosts:
    - gitwebhookproxy.example.com

2. Change below mentioned attribute's values in Secret in gitwebhookproxy.yaml

data:
  secret: example

3. Change below mentioned attribute's values in ConfigMap in gitwebhookproxy.yaml

data:
  provider: github
  upstreamURL: https://jenkins.example.com
  allowedPaths: /github-webhook,/project
  ignoredUsers: stakater-user

Deploying

Then you can deploy GitwebhookProxy by running the following kubectl commands:

kubectl apply -f gitwebhookproxy.yaml -n <namespace>

Note: Make sure to update the port in deployment.yaml as well as service.yaml if you change the default listenAddress port.

Helm Charts

Alternatively if you have configured helm on your cluster, you can add gitwebhookproxy to helm from our public chart repository and deploy it via helm using below mentioned commands

1. Add the chart repo:

   i. helm repo add stakater https://stakater.github.io/stakater-charts/

   ii. helm repo update

2. Set configuration as discussed in the Configuring section

   i. helm fetch --untar stakater/gitwebhookproxy

   ii. Open and edit gitwebhookproxy/values.yaml in a text editor and update the values mentioned in Configuring section.

3. Install the chart

   • helm install stakater/gitwebhookproxy -f gitwebhookproxy/values.yaml -n gitwebhookproxy

Running outside Kubernetes

Run with Docker

To run the docker container outside of Kubernetes, you can pass the configuration as the Container Entrypoint arguments. The docker image is available on docker hub. Example below:

docker run stakater/gitwebhookproxy:v0.2.63 -listen :8080 -upstreamURL google.com -provider github -secret "test"

Run with Docker compose

For docker compose, the syntax is a bit different

jenkinswebhookproxy: 
    image: 'stakater/gitwebhookproxy:latest'
    command: ["-listen", ":8080", "-secret", "test", "-upstreamURL", "jenkins.example.com, "-allowedPaths", "/github-webhook,/ghprbhook"]
    restart: on-failure

Troubleshooting

405 Method Not Allowed with Jenkins & github plugin

If you get the following error when setting up webhooks for your jobs in Jenkins, make sure you have the trailing / in the webhook configured in Jenkins.

Error Redirecting '/github-webhook' to upstream', Upstream Redirect Status: 405 Method Not Allowed

Help

Got a question? File a GitHub issue, or send us an email.

Talk to us on Slack

Join and talk to us on the #tools-gwp channel for discussing about GitWebhookProxy

Contributing

Bug Reports & Feature Requests

Please use the issue tracker to report any bugs or file feature requests.

Developing

PRs are welcome. In general, we follow the "fork-and-pull" Git workflow.

1. Fork the repo on GitHub
2. Clone the project to your own machine
3. Commit changes to your own branch
4. Push your work back up to your fork
5. Submit a Pull request so that we can review your changes

NOTE: Be sure to merge the latest from "upstream" before making a pull request!

Changelog

View our closed Pull Requests.

License

Apache2 © Stakater

About

GitWebhookProxy is maintained by Stakater. Like it? Please let us know at hello@stakater.com

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