In order to create deployments on GitHub you need to configure a few things. Fallback configurations are configured by environmental variables.
| Common Attributes | |
|---|---|
| HUBOT_GITHUB_API | A String of the full URL to the GitHub API. Default: "https://api.github.com" |
| HUBOT_GITHUB_TOKEN | A personal oauth token with repo_deployment scope. This is normally a bot account. |
| HUBOT_DEPLOY_PREFIX | The thing to prefix your deployment commands with. Defaults to 'deploy' |
| HUBOT_DEPLOY_FERNET_SECRETS | The key used for encrypting your tokens in the hubot's brain. A comma delimited set of different key tokens. To create one run `dd if=/dev/urandom bs=32 count=1 2>/dev/null |
| HUBOT_DEPLOY_EMIT_GITHUB_DEPLOYMENTS | If set to true a github_deployment event emit emitted instead of posting directly to the GitHub API. This allows for customization, check out the examples. |
| HUBOT_DEPLOY_DEFAULT_ENVIRONMENT | Allow for specifying which environment should be the default when it is omitted from the deployment request in chat. |
| HUBOT_DEPLOY_GITHUB_SUBNETS | Allow for specifying the subnets for your GitHub install, useful for GitHub Enterprise. Defaults to github.com's IP range. |
| HUBOT_DEPLOY_PRIVATE_MESSAGE_TOKEN_MANAGEMENT | Allow for messaging tokens to hubot in chat. This is going away. |
| HUBOT_DEPLOY_WEBHOOK_SECRET | The shared webhook secret to check payload signatures from GitHub. |
| HUBOT_DEPLOY_ENCRYPT_PAYLOAD | Encrypt the entire deployment payload in the GitHub API. |
| HUBOT_DEPLOY_WEBHOOK_PREFIX | The URL prefix to be used for receiving webhooks. Default: "/hubot-deploy" |
If you already have a user on GitHub that is essentially a bot account you can create a personal OAuth token for that user with the user and repo scopes. Unfortunately GitHub won't be able to differentiate between different users deploying, they'll all be created in the API as the bot user.
The hubot-deploy script provides a way to have user specific tokens for interacting with the API. You need to be using a chat service that supports private messages like SlackHQ or Hipchat.
To configure your own token, make a personal OAuth token with both user, repo scopes. Then provide it to hubot via private message.
deploy-token:set:github <mytoken>
Hubot will respond and tell you whether the token is sufficient or not. If your token is good future deployments will be properly attributed to your user in the API.
If things are being weird you can verify your token.
deploy-token:verify:github
If you want to go back having the highlander token create your deployments you can reset things like.
deploy-token:reset:github
Hubot will respond and tell you that your token has been forgotten and removed from the robot's brain.