GitLab Cookbook

Using webhooks

GitLab allows you to set up webhooks that will be triggered every time a certain type of event is launched. In this recipe, we will take a look at how you can set up these webhooks yourself and how you can test whether they work without building a complete script around it.

How to do it…

In the following steps, we will configure the webhooks:

1. Log in to your GitLab instance as a project owner.
2. Go to the project for which you want to enable webhooks.
3. Click on Settings.
4. Click on Web hooks in the left-hand side menu.
5. Here, you see the form that you can use to set up the webhooks. As we won't be writing a script to catch these events, we will be using a web service that enables us to catch the events.
6. As we want to have a place to test the webhook ...