🧩 GitHub → Jira Automation (Flask + AWS EC2)

This project connects GitHub issue comments to Jira using a lightweight Flask API hosted on AWS EC2.
Whenever a user comments /jira on a GitHub issue, a new Jira ticket is automatically created with all relevant details.

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🚀 Features

• Listens to GitHub webhooks for issue_comment events
• Creates Jira issues automatically when /jira is detected in a comment
• Environment-based credentials using .env for security
• Deployed on AWS EC2 with Python virtual environment
• Supports both local and cloud testing

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🧠 How It Works

1. GitHub sends a webhook payload when someone comments on an issue.
2. Flask receives the payload at /createJira.
3. If the comment starts with /jira, the app creates a new Jira issue via REST API.
4. The Jira issue description includes the original comment and GitHub issue link.

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⚙️ Tech Stack

• Python 3.10+
• Flask for webhook handling
• Requests for REST API calls
• Jira Cloud REST API
• GitHub Webhooks
• AWS EC2 (Ubuntu) for hosting
• python-dotenv for secret management

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🧩 Environment Variables

Create a .env file in your project root:

JIRA_EMAIL=your_email@example.com

JIRA_API_TOKEN=your_jira_api_token

JIRA_PROJECT_KEY=SCRUM

▶️ Running Locally

# Create a virtual environment
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

# Install dependencies
pip install flask requests python-dotenv

# Run the Flask app
python github_jira_ticket.py

Then open your browser or cURL:

http://localhost:5000/createJira

☁️ Deploying on AWS EC2

Launch an Ubuntu EC2 instance

SSH into it using your .pem key

Clone this repository

Set up your virtual environment:

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Run:

python github_jira_ticket.py

Open port 5000 in your EC2 security group inbound rules

Add the EC2 public URL to your GitHub Webhook settings

Workflow -