automatically-create-github-issuea-when-advanced-scanning-detects-an-issue

Automatically created jira issues whenever there is a issue detected by CodeQL analysis

How the code works

• repo.py --> this will retrieve all the repositories in github organization and pass it to github_scanning.py

• github_scanning.py --> basically this will retrieve the dependabot alerts from github

• jira.py --> this file is used for multiple purposes

  • retrieve all tasks under a epic
  • create task on epic with summary and description

• common_utils.py --> character limit for description and summary

  • compare tasks in epic and dependabot alters to make sure no duplicate stories are created

• date_time.py --> returns the date time

Parameters

parameter name	description	required
epic_key	jira epic key	✔️
organization	github organization name	✔️

credentials used

JIRA_PASSWORD, JIRA_URL, JIRA_USERNAME, GH_TOKEN are used for authentication for Jira and GitHub

Poetry is used for package management

How to run code in local

• clone the repository and cd github-automatically-create-jira-issues-when-advanced-scanning-detects-an-issue
• pass the necessary parameters like epic_key and organization name

python3 jira.py --epic_key DEVOPS-245 --organization devwithkrishna 

This is a proof of concept only