If you are a project administrator, you can configure a connection from a project in Harbor to a webhook endpoint. If you configure webhooks, Harbor notifies the webhook endpoint of certain events that occur in the project. Webhooks allow you to integrate Harbor with other tools to streamline continuous integration and development processes.

The action that is taken upon receiving a notification from a Harbor project depends on your continuous integration and development processes. For example, by configuring Harbor to send a POST request to a webhook listener at an endpoint of your choice, you can trigger a build and deployment of an application whenever there is a change to an image in the repository.

Supported Events

You can define multiple webhook endpoints per project. Harbor supports two kinds of endpoints currently, HTTP and SLACK. Webhook notifications provide information about events in JSON format and are delivered by HTTP or HTTPS POST to an existing webhhook endpoint URL or Slack address that you provide. The following table describes the events that trigger notifications and the contents of each notification.

Payload Format

The webhook notification is delivered in JSON format. The following example shows the JSON notification for a push artifact event when using HTTP kind endpoint:

{
	"type": "PUSH_ARTIFACT",
	"occur_at": 1586922308,
	"operator": "admin",
	"event_data": {
		"resources": [{
			"digest": "sha256:8a9e9863dbb6e10edb5adfe917c00da84e1700fa76e7ed02476aa6e6fb8ee0d8",
			"tag": "latest",
			"resource_url": "hub.harbor.com/test-webhook/debian:latest"
		}],
		"repository": {
			"date_created": 1586922308,
			"name": "debian",
			"namespace": "test-webhook",
			"repo_full_name": "test-webhook/debian",
			"repo_type": "private"
		}
	}
}

when you select the Slack type, and fill a Slack incoming webhook URL as endpoint, the message you received in Slack will be like,

Harbor webhook events
event_type: PUSH_ARTIFACT
occur_at: April 15th at 11:59 AM
operator: admin
event_data:
{
    "resources": [
        {
            "digest": "sha256:8a9e9863dbb6e10edb5adfe917c00da84e1700fa76e7ed02476aa6e6fb8ee0d8",
            "tag": "latest",
            "resource_url": "hub.harbor.com/test-webhook/debian:latest"
        }
    ],
    "repository": {
        "date_created": 1586922308,
        "name": "debian",
        "namespace": "test-webhook",
        "repo_full_name": "test-webhook/debian",
        "repo_type": "private"
    }
}

Webhook Endpoint Recommendations

There are two kinds of endpoints. For HTTP the endpoint that receives the webhook should ideally have a webhook listener that is capable of interpreting the payload and acting upon the information it contains. For example, running a shell script.

And for Slack endpoint, you should follow the guide of Slack incoming webhook.

Example Use Cases

You can configure your continuous integration and development infrastructure so that it performs the following types of operations when it receives a webhook notification from Harbor.

• Artifact push:
  • Trigger a new build immediately following a push on selected repositories or tags.
  • Notify services or applications that use the artifact that a new artifact is available and pull it.
  • Scan the artifact using Trivy.
  • Replicate the artifact to remote registries.
• Image scanning:
  • If a vulnerability is found, rescan the image or replicate it to another registry.
  • If the scan passes, deploy the image.

Configure Webhooks

1. Log in to the Harbor interface with an account that has at least project administrator privileges.

2. Go to Projects, select a project, and select Webhooks.

   

   

3. Select notify type HTTP, so the webhook will be send to a HTTP endpoint.

4. Select events that you want to subscribe.

5. Enter the URL for your webhook endpoint listener.

6. If your webhook listener implements authentication, enter the authentication header.

7. To implement HTTPS POST instead of HTTP POST, select the Verifiy Remote Certficate check box.

   

   

8. Click Test Endpoint to make sure that Harbor can connect to the listener.

9. Click Continue to create the webhook.

When you have created the webhook, you can click on the arrow at the left end to see the status of the different notifications and the timestamp of the last time each notification was triggered. You can also manage the webhook by clicking the drop list button of ACTION... .

You can modify the webhook, you can also Enable or Deactivate the webhook.

If a webhook notification fails to send, or if it receives an HTTP error response with a code other than 2xx, the notification is re-sent based on the configuration that you set in harbor.yml.

Globally Enable and Deactivate Webhooks

As a Harbor system administrator, you can enable and deactivate webhook notifications for all projects.

1. Go to Configuration > System Settings.

2. Scroll down and check or uncheck the Webhooks enabled check box.