How to run a Google Cloud Build trigger via cli / rest api / cloud functions?

Question

Is there such an option? My use case would be running a trigger for a production build (deploys to production). Ideally, that trigger doesn\'t need to listen to any change since

Answer 1

you can trigger a function via

gcloud functions call NAME --data 'THING'

inside your function you can do pretty much anything possibile within Googles Public API's

if you just want to directly trigger Google Cloud Builder from git then its probably advisable to use Release version tags - so your chatbot might add a release tag to your release branch in git at which point cloud-builder will start the build.

more info here https://cloud.google.com/cloud-build/docs/running-builds/automate-builds