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For a number of services, I need a system/service which can receive web hooks, and act when such a trigger is received.

Just a few examples:

• GitHub can send web hooks when something changes in a repo (in any repository you administer, go to "Settings" -> "Webhooks", and add your own hook)
• Tasker for Android can send HTTP(s) requests
• JIRA can send web hooks when certain events occur
• openHAB can send messages to other services

Now it would be useful to have your own receiver for web hooks, and run any task you want. There are a number of tools out there, which can solve this problem. I settled with "webhook". In addition, I deploy everything using Ansible, therefore I had to write a bit of code in order to automate this process.