Replicate Nightly Cron with Pinned BoTorch workflow (facebook/Ax)

The Replicate Nightly Cron with Pinned BoTorch workflow from facebook/Ax, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

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Source: facebook/Ax.github/workflows/cron_pinned.ymlLicense MITView source

What it does

This is the Replicate Nightly Cron with Pinned BoTorch workflow from the facebook/Ax repository, a real project running GitHub Actions. It is shown here with attribution under its MIT license.

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The workflow

workflow (.yml)

name: Replicate Nightly Cron with Pinned BoTorch

on:

  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:

  tests-and-coverage-minimal:
    name: Tests with pinned BoTorch & minimal dependencies
    uses: ./.github/workflows/reusable_test.yml
    with:
      pinned_botorch: true
      minimal_dependencies: true
    secrets: inherit

  tests-and-coverage-full:
    name: Tests with pinned BoTorch & full dependencies
    uses: ./.github/workflows/reusable_test.yml
    with:
      pinned_botorch: true
      minimal_dependencies: false
    secrets: inherit

  build-tutorials:
    name: Build tutorials with pinned BoTorch
    uses: ./.github/workflows/reusable_tutorials.yml
    with:
      smoke_test: false
      pinned_botorch: true

The same workflow, on Latchkey

Removes redundant runs and caps runaway jobs. Added and changed lines are highlighted.

name: Replicate Nightly Cron with Pinned BoTorch
 
on:
 
  workflow_dispatch:
 
jobs:
 
  tests-and-coverage-minimal:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    name: Tests with pinned BoTorch & minimal dependencies
    uses: ./.github/workflows/reusable_test.yml
    with:
      pinned_botorch: true
      minimal_dependencies: true
    secrets: inherit
 
  tests-and-coverage-full:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    name: Tests with pinned BoTorch & full dependencies
    uses: ./.github/workflows/reusable_test.yml
    with:
      pinned_botorch: true
      minimal_dependencies: false
    secrets: inherit
 
  build-tutorials:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    name: Build tutorials with pinned BoTorch
    uses: ./.github/workflows/reusable_tutorials.yml
    with:
      smoke_test: false
      pinned_botorch: true

What changed

Add a job timeout so a hung step cannot burn hours of runner time.

This workflow runs 3 jobs per trigger. On Latchkey the same minutes cost up to 58% less than GitHub-hosted, with zero queue time.