Webhooks for cookbook events

[nathenharvey]

This request came in via the feedback site.

Cookbook events are published to an RSS feed today. Is this sufficient?

[nathenharvey]

We would love to see some additional use cases and get a better understanding of whether or not RSS-feeds can support the goals you have.

Subscribe to all cookbook activity: https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks.atom

Subscribe to only activity for the httpd cookbook: https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/httpd.atom

[robbkidd]

Also available:

Subscribe to only activity for cookbooks followed by a specific user: https://supermarket.chef.io/users/<username>/followed_cookbook_activity.atom

For example, my followed cookbooks as an activity feed.

[nellshamrell]

Closing for now as there has been no conversation for a few months, feel free to re-open.

[slushpupie]

Did not even know this was here- I was the one that requested the webhook feature over on the feedback site. I would have commented here sooner had I known.

The problem with RSS is its polling based. In our organization we have a lot of chef orgs/pipelines, so polling puts an unnecessary drain on resources, and puts in arbitrary wait times. Being event-driven would be preferable for kicking off pipelines.

[nathenharvey]

Thanks for the additional info @slushpupie. I will reopen this for now and we'll consider it as we do some roadmap planning.