GitHub webhooks allow you to easily generate notifications whenever certain actions occur. One built-in webhook is Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), which can transmit these messages to a variety of endpoints…including AWS Lambda, which means you can now easily run JavaScript code in response to something happening in a GitHub repository. In this post we’ll make a simple issue responder bot using a Lambda function, but you could use the same technique to trigger deployments or other actions.13-06-2017
While the API provides multiple methods for authentication, we strongly recommend using OAuth for production applications. The other methods provided are intended to be used for scripts or testing (i.e., cases where full OAuth would be overkill). Third party applications that rely on GitHub for authentication should not ask for or collect GitHub credentials. Instead, they should use the OAuth web flow.13-06-2017
Lambda function to commit code to github. See blog post for more details.13-06-2017
You can configure multiple projects and languages from a file named config.yml. The config.yml file is located in a folder named .dependabot at the root of your repository.All available configration options are documented below.09-06-2020