xrstf/github-releases-notifier repository overview

⁠github-releases-notifier

Note: This fork mainly updates the Go dependencies and removes some unused stuff (like dotenv support=).

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

⁠Watching repositories

To watch repositories simply add them to the list of arguments -r=kubernetes/kubernetes -r=prometheus/prometheus 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_TOKEN=XXX \
  -e SLACK_HOOK=https://hooks.slack.com/... \
  xrstf/github-releases-notifier \
    -r=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=slack=XXX

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

$ kubectl apply -f deployments/kubernetes.yml

That's it.