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How to use Webhook Relay client with Docker to start forwarding webhooks to your internal services and open tunnels to expose your services

Prerequisites

Forward webhooks

  1. Go to https://my.webhookrelay.com/buckets and create a bucket and where you want to forward the webhooks
  2. Go to the tokens page and get your access key and secret
export RELAY_KEY=<replace with your key>
export RELAY_SECRET=<replace with your secret>
  1. Start a webhookrelayd agent:
docker run -d \
  --name whr-relayd \
  --restart always \
  -e RELAY_KEY=${RELAY_KEY} \
  -e RELAY_SECRET=${RELAY_SECRET} \
  -e BUCKETS=<bucket name> \
  webhookrelay/webhookrelayd:latest

If you are using self-signed certificates on your internal side, specify INSECURE environment variable to skip validation:

INSECURE=true

Open a tunnel

  1. Go to https://my.webhookrelay.com/tunnels and create a tunnel with your desired destination
  2. Start a bidirectional tunnel:
docker run --name whr-relayd \
  --net host \
  --restart always \
  -d webhookrelay/webhookrelayd:latest \
  --mode tunnel -t mytunnelname -k [access key] -s [access secret]

Here webhookrelayd commands:

  • --mode tunnel indicates that it should start bidirectional tunnel
  • -t mytunnelname acts as a filter, it has to match the tunnel name that you have created previously
  • -k access key is your authentication token key
  • -s access secret is your authentication token secret

You can also specify these details through environment variables:

KEY=<your token key>
SECRET=<your token secret>
TUNNELS=<comma separated list of tunnels>
REGION=<region - eu, au, us-west (defaults to eu)>
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