Dependency Review workflow (meltano/meltano)

The Dependency Review workflow from meltano/meltano, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

What it does

This is the Dependency Review workflow from the meltano/meltano repository, a real project running GitHub Actions. It is shown here with attribution under its MIT license.

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

The workflow

name: Dependency Review

on:
  pull_request:
    paths:
      - '**.lock'
concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
  cancel-in-progress: true

permissions:
  contents: read

jobs:
  dependency-review:
    name: Dependency Review
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout the repository
        uses: actions/checkout@9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0 # v7.0.0
        with:
          persist-credentials: false

      - name: GitHub dependency vulnerability check
        uses: actions/dependency-review-action@a1d282b36b6f3519aa1f3fc636f609c47dddb294 # v5.0.0
        with:
          allow-ghsas: |
            GHSA-w853-jp5j-5j7f
            GHSA-qmgc-5h2g-mvrw

The same workflow, on Latchkey

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

name: Dependency Review
 
on:
  pull_request:
    paths:
      - '**.lock'
concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
  cancel-in-progress: true
 
permissions:
  contents: read
 
jobs:
  dependency-review:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    name: Dependency Review
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    steps:
      - name: Checkout the repository
        uses: actions/checkout@9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0 # v7.0.0
        with:
          persist-credentials: false
 
      - name: GitHub dependency vulnerability check
        uses: actions/dependency-review-action@a1d282b36b6f3519aa1f3fc636f609c47dddb294 # v5.0.0
        with:
          allow-ghsas: |
            GHSA-w853-jp5j-5j7f
            GHSA-qmgc-5h2g-mvrw
 

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

This workflow runs 1 job per trigger. On Latchkey the same minutes cost up to 58% less than GitHub-hosted, with zero queue time.

Actions used in this workflow