Publish workflow (graphistry/graph-app-kit)

The Publish workflow from graphistry/graph-app-kit, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

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Source: graphistry/graph-app-kit.github/workflows/publish.ymlLicense BSD-3-ClauseView source

What it does

This is the Publish workflow from the graphistry/graph-app-kit repository, a real project running GitHub Actions. It is shown here with attribution under its BSD-3-Clause license.

Below, Latchkey shows a faster, safer version produced by its optimization engine.

The workflow

workflow (.yml)

name: Publish

on:

  #Merge
  push:
    branches:
      - master

  #Label
  pull_request:
    types: [labeled]


  #Enable UI-driven branch testing
  workflow_dispatch:

  #Test main bidaily @ 1a
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 1 1-31/2 * *'

jobs:

  stub_mt:
    name: Always-succeed step to prevent appearing as a failure
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    timeout-minutes: 10
    steps:
      - name: Do nothing
        run: echo "Do nothing"

  publish:
    name: Upload to Amazon S3
    if: github.event.action != 'labeled' || github.event.label.name == 'publish'
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - name: Checkout
      uses: actions/checkout@v3

    - name: Configure AWS credentials
      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v1
      with:
        aws-access-key-id: ${{ secrets.S3_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
        aws-secret-access-key: ${{ secrets.S3_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
        aws-region: ${{ secrets.S3_AWS_REGION_PUBLIC }}

    - name: Copy CloudFormation templates
      run: |
        aws s3 cp src/bootstraps/core/graphistry.yml "s3://${{ secrets.AWS_S3_BUCKET_PUBLIC}}/templates/latest/core/graphistry.yml"
        aws s3 cp src/bootstraps/core/minimal.yml "s3://${{ secrets.AWS_S3_BUCKET_PUBLIC}}/templates/latest/core/minimal.yml"
        aws s3 cp src/bootstraps/neptune/graphistry.yml "s3://${{ secrets.AWS_S3_BUCKET_PUBLIC}}/templates/latest/neptune/graphistry.yml"
        aws s3 cp src/bootstraps/neptune/minimal.yml "s3://${{ secrets.AWS_S3_BUCKET_PUBLIC}}/templates/latest/neptune/minimal.yml"

The same workflow, on Latchkey

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

name: Publish
 
on:
 
  #Merge
  push:
    branches:
      - master
 
  #Label
  pull_request:
    types: [labeled]
 
 
  #Enable UI-driven branch testing
  workflow_dispatch:
 
  #Test main bidaily @ 1a
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 1 1-31/2 * *'
 
concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
  cancel-in-progress: true
 
jobs:
 
  stub_mt:
    name: Always-succeed step to prevent appearing as a failure
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    timeout-minutes: 10
    steps:
      - name: Do nothing
        run: echo "Do nothing"
 
  publish:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    name: Upload to Amazon S3
    if: github.event.action != 'labeled' || github.event.label.name == 'publish'
    runs-on: latchkey-small
 
    steps:
    - name: Checkout
      uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
    - name: Configure AWS credentials
      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v1
      with:
        aws-access-key-id: ${{ secrets.S3_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
        aws-secret-access-key: ${{ secrets.S3_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
        aws-region: ${{ secrets.S3_AWS_REGION_PUBLIC }}
 
    - name: Copy CloudFormation templates
      run: |
        aws s3 cp src/bootstraps/core/graphistry.yml "s3://${{ secrets.AWS_S3_BUCKET_PUBLIC}}/templates/latest/core/graphistry.yml"
        aws s3 cp src/bootstraps/core/minimal.yml "s3://${{ secrets.AWS_S3_BUCKET_PUBLIC}}/templates/latest/core/minimal.yml"
        aws s3 cp src/bootstraps/neptune/graphistry.yml "s3://${{ secrets.AWS_S3_BUCKET_PUBLIC}}/templates/latest/neptune/graphistry.yml"
        aws s3 cp src/bootstraps/neptune/minimal.yml "s3://${{ secrets.AWS_S3_BUCKET_PUBLIC}}/templates/latest/neptune/minimal.yml"

What changed

Run on Latchkey managed runners with one line (runs-on), which apply the fixes below automatically and self-heal transient failures. This example uses latchkey-small; pick the runner size that fits the job.
Cancel superseded runs when a branch or PR gets a newer push.
Add a job timeout so a hung step cannot burn hours of runner time.

1 third-party action is referenced by a movable tag. Pin it to the commit SHA (Latchkey resolves and applies this automatically) so a repointed tag cannot change what runs.

This workflow runs 2 jobs per trigger. On Latchkey the same minutes cost up to 58% less than GitHub-hosted, with zero queue time.

Actions used in this workflow

actions/checkout aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials