Continuing the build service discussion from the Designing CI/CD Systems series, we’re now at a good point to look at reporting status as code passes through the system.
At the very minimum, you want to communicate build results to our users, but it’s worth examining other steps in the process that also provide useful information.
The code for reporting status isn’t a major feat. However, using it to enforce build workflows can get complicated when implemented from scratch.
Since the pipeline covered so far in earlier articles already integrates with GitHub, it’s much easier to simplify things by taking advantage of GitHub’s features. Specifically, we can use the Status API to convey information directly into pull requests, and use repository settings to gate merges based on those statuses.
Reporting status to GitHub
We had a brief discussion of this API in a previous article about integrating pytest results with GitHub. It also covered GitHub Apps and how to authenticate them into the REST API. Today we’ll discuss more details about the Status API itself, keeping in mind a pre-existing App.
Reporting pull request status is a simple HTTP POST request to the status endpoint of the relevant PR. You can find that URL as part of the webhook event details related to the PR.
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