GitHub automatic deploying to an Ubuntu Server

Question

I am trying to host a Discord bot for my friends. We have a GitHub respository that we all have access to and push the code to. I am trying to do the following

• Once a push is detected, the server automatically runs git pull in the project folder so the new code from the GitHub is now in the project folder
• To restart the bot, once a pull is detected run pm2 restart 0 to restart the bot with the new code.

I am running Ubuntu 18.04 Server

Anybody have any suggestions on how to do this?

Answer 1

You're looking for github webhooks. You'll likely need to set up a web server on that Ubuntu box that github can ping when certain events are triggered in your repo.

The server can then verify that the request came from github (see securing your webhooks), and run some script (this can be a basic bash script) that performs your site maintenance (backup, pull, redeploy, etc.).