gancho 0.1.1

Gancho receives webhooks and triggers actions in response.

Gancho takes websocket payload and perform actions

Usage:

On github set websocket for the desired events, recommended Tag Creation.

Installation

# Service directories
mkdir p /opt/gancho

# Service User
sudo useradd -r -s /usr/sbin/nologin -d /opt/gancho -M gancho

# This gives permission to manipulate /var/www, adjust for your needs
sudo chown -R gancho:www-data /opt/gancho
sudo chown -R root:www-data /var/www
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www
sudo usermod -aG www-data gancho

# Environment
cd /opt/gancho
uv venv
uv pip install gancho

Test it

$ /opt/gancho/.venv/bin/gancho

INFO:     Started server process [4321]
INFO:     Waiting for application startup.
INFO:     Application startup complete.
INFO:     Uvicorn running on http://127.0.0.1:5000 (Press CTRL+C to quit)]

On a separate terminal

curl -X POST localhost:5000 -H "x-github-event:ping"

Service Daemon

Soket directory

sudo mkdir -p /run/gancho
sudo chown gancho:www-data /run/gancho
sudo chmod 770 /run/gancho

/etc/systemd/system/gancho.socket

[Unit]
Description=Socket do gancho

[Socket]
ListenStream=/run/gancho/gancho.sock
SocketMode=0660
SocketUser=gancho
SocketGroup=www-data

[Install]
WantedBy=sockets.target

/etc/systemd/system/gancho.service

[Unit]
Description=gancho daemon
Requires=gancho.socket
After=network.target

[Service]
User=gancho
Group=www-data
WorkingDirectory=/opt/gancho
ExecStart=/opt/gancho/.venv/bin/gancho
Restart=always
RestartSec=5
StandardInput=socket

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Start the service

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now gancho.socket
sudo systemctl status gancho.service   # will start only when socket is used

$ systemctl status gancho
○ gancho.service - gancho daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/gancho.service; disabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: inactive (dead)
TriggeredBy: ● gancho.socket

Nginx host

Replace example.com with your host

/etc/nginx/sites-available/gancho

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example.com;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://unix:/run/gancho/gancho.sock;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    }
}

ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/gancho /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/gancho

nginx -t
sudo systemctl restart nginx