This post introduces Lighthouse, a ChatOps tool; the content comes mainly from the official documentation. The Kubernetes community uses Prow to drive its collaboration on GitHub, but Prow does not work for other repositories. Lighthouse is broadly applicable to more types of Git repositories. 1. What Is Lighthouse Lighthouse is a lightweight ChatOps tool built on webhooks.

1. About Prow In the GitHub repositories of well-known projects such as Kubernetes and Istio, we often see an xxx-bot user adding labels to issues and merging PRs. That bot account is driven by Prow. Prow is a project of the Kubernetes Testing Special Interest Group and is currently part of kubernetes/test-infra.