Trigger integration test workflow by push to different repository

#1

I am trying to do the following:
I have a git repo which contains our System Integration Tests, those tests should be executed whenever a new version of any of our services is deployed.
I searched for custom triggers in the CircleCI doc to do this but havent found anything except for the HTTP API. I think it would be possible by API but this means I would need to configure the API call in each of my services, it would be better to configure a hook once in the integration test CI config.

Is this possible with CircleCI? If its not possible then what are other options for dong this?

#2

Are you doing the deployment using CircleCI? If so, could you not follow the deployment job with another one?

#3

Yes I am doing the deployment with CircleCI but we have multiple components in the system which are independently deployed and each of them is in a git repo which has the circleci config.
This means I would need to touch all the circleci configs of all components and add a new job which triggers the integration test workflow.
I think It would be better if I could add a hook to the integration test workflow which says “whenever the deploy job of any of the components was run then also run this workflow”

#4

Ah, I see, so you don’t want to copy the integration test into each repo or into each CircleCI config. That’s fair enough.

I think your original idea about the CircleCI API is a good one. I understand what you mean about duplication here too - I wonder if Orbs would help? I have not tried them yet, but I believe they are intended to help with modularisation.