ansiwatch-bot

Ansible content linter bot

What is this?

Currently it's my research about Bots using GitHub Apps integrations. Runs ansible-review on pull_request event, posts result via Checks API. One-click installable. Deployed privately for now. Demo of the check posted: https://github.com/webknjaz/ansible-gentoo-laptop/pull/4/checks?check_run_id=26277133

What is it done of?

ansible-review — linter itself
check-in — Checks API bindings
CherryPy — framework implementing GitHub webhook event routing, GitHub integration and repos sync via the built-in pubsub bus
OpenShift — back-end platform

Creating an openshift app

oc new-project ansiwatch-bot
oc new-app --param-file=.env openshift.yaml
# or
cat openshift.yaml | oc process -f - --param-file=.env -o yaml | oc apply -f -

Triggering build

oc start-build ansiwatch-bot

Triggering deployment

oc rollout latest ansiwatch-bot

Triggering automatic deployment

From the Web Console homepage, navigate to project ansiwatch-bot
Click on Browse > Builds
Click the link with BuildConfig named ansiwatch-bot
Click the Configuration tab
Click the "Copy to clipboard" icon to the right of the "GitHub webhook URL" field
Navigate to your repository on GitHub and click on repository settings > webhooks > Add webhook
Paste your webhook URL provided by OpenShift in the "Payload URL" field
Change the "Content type" to 'application/json'
Leave the defaults for the remaining fields — that's it!

After you save your webhook, if you refresh your settings page you can see the status of the ping that Github sent to OpenShift to verify it can reach the server.

Note: adding a webhook requires your OpenShift server to be reachable from GitHub.

Now, whenever you push to that repo it will trigger deployment in OpenShift.

Checking status

oc logs -f bc/ansiwatch-bot

Destroying everything back

oc delete all -l app=ansiwatch-bot; oc delete secret ansiwatch-bot

webknjaz / ansiwatch-bot