External Events

Gofer has an alternate endpoint specifically for external events streams¹. This endpoint takes in http requests from the outside and passes them to the relevant extension.

You can find more about external event configuration in the configuration-values reference.

 external_events_api {
   enable = true
   host   = "0.0.0.0:8081"
 }

It works like this:

1. When the Gofer service is started it starts the external events service on a separate port per the service configuration settings. It is also possible to just turn off this feature via the same configuration file.

2. External services can send Gofer http requests with payloads and headers specific to the extension they're trying to communicate with. It's possible to target specific extensions by using the /events endpoint.

   ex: https://mygofer.mydomain.com/events/github <- #extension label

3. Gofer serializes and forwards the request to the relevant extension where it is validated for authenticity of sender and then processed.

4. A extension may then handle this external event in any way it pleases. For example, the Github extension takes in external events which are expected to be Github webhooks and starts a pipeline if the event type matches one the user wanted.