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Joel Lord (joel__lord on Twitter) is passionate about the web and technology in general. He likes to learn new things, but most of all, he wants to share his discoveries. He does so by traveling to various conferences all across the globe. He graduated from college with a degree in computer programming in the last millennium. Apart from a little break to get his BSc in computational astrophysics, he has always worked in the industry. In his daily job, Joel is a developer advocate with MongoDB, where he connects with software engineers to help them make the web better by using best practices around JavaScript. In his free time, he can be found stargazing on a campground somewhere or brewing a fresh batch of beer in his garage.
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Configuring your cluster

In order for external services, such as GitHub, to connect to your triggers, you will need to expose a service to the outside world. This process varies a lot depending on the type of cluster that you are using. Should you be using minikube, the process will be relatively simple. For cloud-based solutions, the setup might vary from one cloud provider to another, and you might need to read up the documentation from your specific supplier.

Using a local cluster

If you are using a local version on your computer, such as minikube, you will need additional software to help you expose your event listeners.

Right now, there is no way for GitHub to find your personal computer when it triggers a webhook. To do so, you will need a tool called ngrok to create a tunnel between your laptop and the outside world.

To install ngrok, go to https://ngrok.com/download. From there, follow the instructions on the page to install it on your computer, as shown in the...

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Joel Lord (joel__lord on Twitter) is passionate about the web and technology in general. He likes to learn new things, but most of all, he wants to share his discoveries. He does so by traveling to various conferences all across the globe. He graduated from college with a degree in computer programming in the last millennium. Apart from a little break to get his BSc in computational astrophysics, he has always worked in the industry. In his daily job, Joel is a developer advocate with MongoDB, where he connects with software engineers to help them make the web better by using best practices around JavaScript. In his free time, he can be found stargazing on a campground somewhere or brewing a fresh batch of beer in his garage.
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