check-ghe-updates

A python script that checks for new GitHub Enterprise releases and sends email accordingly

Requirements

• Python 2.7.x
• Requests >= 2.20.x

Configuration

Configuration is performed via environment variables:

• CHECK_GHE_UPDATES_DEBUG - if set to 1, print debut output to stdout; if set to 0, no debug output (defaults to: 0)
• CHECK_GHE_UPDATES_SOURCE - update site to check for updates (defaults to: https://github-enterprise.s3.amazonaws.com/release/latest.json)
• CHECK_GHE_UPDATES_SMTP - SMTP server for sending email (defaults to: localhost)
• CHECK_GHE_UPDATES_FROM - email address to send from (defaults to: check-ghe-updates@unknown)
• CHECK_GHE_UPDATES_RECIPIENT - email address(es) to send to; multiple email addresses must be comma-separated
• CHECK_GHE_UPDATES_CACHE - path to cache file (defaults to: /tmp/check_ghe_version.cache)

Usage

$ python check-ghe-updates.py