Container Service for Kubernetes:Use Knative to manage GitHub events

Step 1: Create a Knative Service

For more information, see Create a Knative Service.

Step 2: Create a GitHub token

1. Create a personal access token.
   A personal access token is required when you call the GitHub API. For more information, see Personal access tokens.

   The following figure shows how to create a token named GitHubSource Sample.

   Note To trigger events from your public repositories and create webhooks for these repositories, select repo:public_repo and admin:repo_hook.

   You can enter a custom token name.

2. Use kubectl to connect to an ACK cluster.
3. Use the following method to generate a random string as secretToken:

   head -c 8 /dev/urandom | base64

4. Update the githubsecret.yaml file.
   If the generated token is personal_access_token_value, you must set the secretToken field. The following code block is an example:

   apiVersion: v1
   kind: Secret
   metadata:
     name: githubsecret
   type: Opaque
   stringData:
     accessToken: personal_access_token_value
     secretToken: asdfasfdsaf

5. Run the following command to create a GitHub token:

   kubectl --namespace default apply githubsecret.yaml

Step 3: Create a GitHub event source

You can create a GitHub event source to receive events generated by GitHub.

1. Use kubectl to connect to an ACK cluster.
2. Create a file named github-source.yaml and copy the following content to the file:

   apiVersion: sources.eventing.knative.dev/v1alpha1
   kind: GitHubSource
   metadata:
     name: githubsourcesample
   spec:
     eventTypes:
       - pull_request
     ownerAndRepository: <YOUR USER>/<YOUR REPO>
     accessToken:
       secretKeyRef:
         name: githubsecret
         key: accessToken
     secretToken:
       secretKeyRef:
         name: githubsecret
         key: secretToken
     sink:
       apiVersion: serving.knative.dev/v1alpha1
       kind: Service
       name: github-event-display

3. Run the following command to create a GitHub event source in the default namespace:

   kubectl --namespace default apply github-source.yaml