Configure GitHub Access

In this section, you'll learn how to configure GitHub access by generating a Fine-grained Personal Access Token (PAT) and setting up webhook security. These steps are essential for establishing a secure and automated Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline using pipeline-as-code concepts.

A Fine-grained PAT ensures that your CI/CD pipeline can securely interact with your GitHub repositories. By generating a token with finely controlled permissions, you grant the pipeline only the specific access it requires, reducing potential security risks.

Objectives

• Generate a Fine-grained PAT with the necessary permissions for pipeline integration.
• Obtain the necessary GitHub access credentials and permissions required for creating and integrating a pipeline-as-code setup.

Key Results

• Personal Access Token (PAT) with the specified permissions is generated successfully in the GitHub account.

Tutorial

1. Generate a Fine-grained Token (PAT) on GitHub. PAT (Fine-grained): Allows you to select repositories from your GitHub organization that can use the token.Create a fine-grained token with the below-mentioned permissions for your source code repository:

   • Go to your GitHub account settings for the top-right corner on your profile.
   

   • Navigate to Developer settings

     

   • Go to Personal access tokens.

   • From drop-down select Fine-grained Tokens.
   • Click Generate new token.
   
   • Provide a name for the token.
   • Select the Resource owner(your organization).
   • Provide Repository access (source code repository) to this token.

   • Select the following scopes/permissions:

     • Administration (Read only)
     • Commit status (Read only)
     • Contents (Read only)
     • Metadata (Read only)
     • Pull requests (Read and write)
     • Webhook (Read and write)
   

   Note

   Save the token cautiously, you will need this to create a secret.

Awesome! Let's move to next tutorial and create a Webhook for our pipeline.