manual-trigger.markdown

Example for a Concourse pipeline triggered my a webhook

Assmuming this pipeline was set as

$ fly --target example set-pipeline --pipeline manual-trigger --config manual-trigger.yml

then you can trigger a new build with

$ curl --request POST 'https://example.com/api/v1/teams/main/pipelines/manual-trigger/resources/manual/check/webhook?webhook_token=supers3cret'

manual-trigger.yml

jobs:
  - name: manually-triggered-job
    plan:
      - get: manual
        trigger: true
      - task: some-task
        config:
          platform: linux
          image_resource:
            type: registry-image
            source: { repository: alpine }
          inputs: [ name: manual ]
          run:
            path: sh
            args:
            - -ec
            - |
              cat manual/input
resources:
  - name: manual
    type: time
    source: { interval: 1s } # ensure there is a new version each time we check manually
    check_every: never
    webhook_token: supers3cret