Is there a way to have a Jira Automation trigger off of the creation of a github tag?

[Rick Hanton]

Per an old presentation by Atlassian product managers, I love automations that let my developers and QA teams stay in "dev-mode", so I'd love to have an intelligent automation that triggers automation runs based on the creation of new tags in github.com, which tends to mean that we're creating a release (in some cases). The problem is that there is no automation hook for tag creation & it appears that the hooks for "new commit" & "branch created" don't see tag creations.

Ideally I'd like the tag-creation to attempt to locate an existing same-named release version in Jira and mark it as "released".

If there's some way to hook an existing automation trigger to this, that'd be fantastic, but I can't find a way.

[Akhand Pratap Singh]

Hello @Rick Hanton ,

Good day! Welcome to the Atlassian Community.

You can refer to this guide: Use Automation with GitHub.

To proceed, add the Automation for Jira webhook in GitHub, and under events, select Branch or Tag creation.

Once set up, the automation will capture all relevant information about tags. You can then store the {{webhookData}} in your automation logs and use it to extract tag details and trigger further actions as needed.