Webhooks give your clients a good reason to fold your API integrations into their own systems. Before you do this, however, you should know a little more about the structure of webhooks.

To trigger a build with a GitHub webhook, you need a Jenkins job that uses a GitHub repository to invoke. For this example, I will create a freestyle Jenkins project with the following properties: ...

The Webhook secret used by GitHub is created as an API token in Jenkins for a user who has rights to invoke the build job. Do not use the remote URL Jenkins provides for invoking builds remotely from ...