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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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Creating the trigger

In this section, you will learn how to create your first trigger. This trigger will listen for GitHub webhooks and automatically start the pipeline you've just built.

As you now know, you will need three components to set up your triggers. The first new object you will create here is the trigger binding.

TriggerBinding

When GitHub sends a request to your cluster, you will need to extract some of the information sent to convert it to a parameter used by the trigger template.

Webhook payloads

As you build more complex pipelines, you might want to extract more information from the webhook than just the repository name. You might want to check the branch on which the push was done or the name of the committer. You can find the full definition of the webhook payloads on the GitHub documentation site at https://docs.github.com/en/developers/webhooks-and-events/webhook-events-and-payloads#push.

In a new file named binding.yaml, start by...

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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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