# What is a webhook?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-is-a-webhook/3718>\
**Category:** Guides, FAQs & Howtos\
**Tags:** howto\
**Created:** [February 6, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-is-a-webhook/3718 "2024-02-06T21:16:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![IPvSean](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/ipvsean/32/1153_2.png) [@IPvSean](https://forum.ansible.com/u/IPvSean)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-is-a-webhook/3718/1 "2024-02-06T21:16:52Z")

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I put together this video “What is a webhook” to help people understand both traditional GitOps and EDA (Event-Drivent Ansible). While I will give an Ansible point-of-view, this will be true regardless of what automation tools you are using 🙂

Here is the video:

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/2X/c/c48e693e6177cced8a4ae17333d0c0e24d6ee969.jpeg "What is a webhook?") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8s-s3ML-zY&t=1s)

Here is the new article on [redhat.com](http://redhat.com)  
[What is a webhook?](https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/automation/what-is-a-webhook)