Trigger GitHub workflows

Trigger GitHub workflows from Bitbucket On-Premise

In order to trigger GitHub workflows from Bitbucket On-Premise (Server or Data Center) you need to configure the Bitbucket Post Webhooks plugin to send the GitHub-specific payload and authenticate the caller.

Create the GitHub personal access token

Ensure that the token has permission to trigger the workflows.

Store it in the token field.

Select payload type as GitHub

Ensure the URL matches the expected GitHub format

The URL should be in the following format https://api.github.com/repos/{REPO_OWNER}/{REPO_NAME_SLUG}/actions/workflows/{WORKFLOW.YML_FILE}/dispatches

Where:

REPO_OWNER is the GitHub org or user that owns the repository where the workflow is stored.
REPO_NAME_SLUG is the GitHub repository slug (the one in the URL).
WORKFLOW.YML_FILE is the name of the file where GitHub workflow is defined. F.e. main-workflow.yml

Workflow example

CODE

name: manual workflow
on:
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      eventType:
        description: 'event type'
        required: true
        type: string
      projectKey:
        description: 'project key'
        required: true
        type: string
      repositorySlug:
        description: 'repository slug'
        required: true
        type: string
      branch:
        description: 'branch name'
        required: true
        type: string
  jobs:
    greet:
      runs-on: ubuntu-latest
      steps:
        - name: send greeting
          run: echo "Event type: ${{inputs.eventType}}, Repo: ${{inputs.projectKey}}/${{inputs.repositorySlug}}"

As you see in the example GitHub workflow, it has defined some inputs and they are used in the steps of a job.

Updated: 29 Nov 2023