CI/CD Pipeline - Firefox Release workflow (NirmalScaria/le-git-graph)

The CI/CD Pipeline - Firefox Release workflow from NirmalScaria/le-git-graph, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

What it does

This is the CI/CD Pipeline - Firefox Release workflow from the NirmalScaria/le-git-graph 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: CI/CD Pipeline - Firefox Release
on:
  push:
    branches:
    - firefox-release
  workflow_dispatch:
jobs:
  publish-firefox-add-on:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          ref: firefox-release
        name: Checkout the repository
      - name: Install node package
        run: npm install web-ext-submit
      - name: Upload and Release
        run: npx web-ext-submit@7 --api-key=${{ secrets.FIREFOX_API_KEY }} --api-secret=${{ secrets.FIREFOX_API_SECRET }}

The same workflow, on Latchkey

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

name: CI/CD Pipeline - Firefox Release
on:
  push:
    branches:
    - firefox-release
  workflow_dispatch:
concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
  cancel-in-progress: true
 
jobs:
  publish-firefox-add-on:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          ref: firefox-release
        name: Checkout the repository
      - name: Install node package
        run: npm install web-ext-submit
      - name: Upload and Release
        run: npx web-ext-submit@7 --api-key=${{ secrets.FIREFOX_API_KEY }} --api-secret=${{ secrets.FIREFOX_API_SECRET }}

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• Cancel superseded runs when a branch or PR gets a newer push.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.

What Latchkey heals here

This workflow has steps that commonly fail on transient issues (network, registries, flaky browsers). On Latchkey managed runners they are detected, retried, and self-healed instead of failing your build:

• Dependency installs

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