Release workflow (petretiandrea/home-assistant-tapo-p100)

The Release workflow from petretiandrea/home-assistant-tapo-p100, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

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Source: petretiandrea/home-assistant-tapo-p100.github/workflows/release.ymlLicense MITView source

What it does

This is the Release workflow from the petretiandrea/home-assistant-tapo-p100 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

workflow (.yml)

name: Release

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  push:
    branches:
      - dev

permissions:
  contents: write

jobs:
  lint:
    uses: ./.github/workflows/lint.yml

  tests:
    uses: ./.github/workflows/tests.yml

  validate:
    uses: ./.github/workflows/validate.yml

  release:
    name: Semantic Release
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: [lint, tests, validate]
    environment: release

    concurrency:
      group: release
      cancel-in-progress: false

    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
          token: ${{ secrets.GIT_GITHUB_TOKEN || github.token }}
          persist-credentials: false

      - name: Setup Node 20.x
        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: 20

      - name: Semantic Release (Dry Run)
        id: semantic
        uses: cycjimmy/semantic-release-action@v4
        with:
          semantic_version: 23.0.2
          branches: |
            [ 'main', {name: 'dev', channel: 'dev', prerelease: true} ]
          extra_plugins: |
            @semantic-release/commit-analyzer@11.1.0
            @semantic-release/release-notes-generator@12.1.0
            @semantic-release/git@10.0.1
            @semantic-release/github@9.2.6
          dry_run: true
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GIT_GITHUB_TOKEN || github.token }}

      - name: Update versioned files
        if: steps.semantic.outputs.new_release_published == 'true'
        run: python3 script/sync_version.py "${{ steps.semantic.outputs.new_release_version }}"

      - name: Semantic Release
        uses: cycjimmy/semantic-release-action@v4
        with:
          semantic_version: 23.0.2
          branches: |
            [ 'main', {name: 'dev', channel: 'dev', prerelease: true} ]
          extra_plugins: |
            @semantic-release/commit-analyzer@11.1.0
            @semantic-release/release-notes-generator@12.1.0
            @semantic-release/git@10.0.1
            @semantic-release/github@9.2.6
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GIT_GITHUB_TOKEN || github.token }}

The same workflow, on Latchkey

Estimated ~20% faster on cache hits, plus fewer wasted runs and a safer supply chain. Added and changed lines are highlighted.

name: Release
 
on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  push:
    branches:
      - dev
 
permissions:
  contents: write
 
concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
  cancel-in-progress: true
 
jobs:
  lint:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    uses: ./.github/workflows/lint.yml
 
  tests:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    uses: ./.github/workflows/tests.yml
 
  validate:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    uses: ./.github/workflows/validate.yml
 
  release:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    name: Semantic Release
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    needs: [lint, tests, validate]
    environment: release
 
    concurrency:
      group: release
      cancel-in-progress: false
 
    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
          token: ${{ secrets.GIT_GITHUB_TOKEN || github.token }}
          persist-credentials: false
 
      - name: Setup Node 20.x
        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          cache: 'npm'
          node-version: 20
 
      - name: Semantic Release (Dry Run)
        id: semantic
        uses: cycjimmy/semantic-release-action@v4
        with:
          semantic_version: 23.0.2
          branches: |
            [ 'main', {name: 'dev', channel: 'dev', prerelease: true} ]
          extra_plugins: |
            @semantic-release/commit-analyzer@11.1.0
            @semantic-release/release-notes-generator@12.1.0
            @semantic-release/git@10.0.1
            @semantic-release/github@9.2.6
          dry_run: true
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GIT_GITHUB_TOKEN || github.token }}
 
      - name: Update versioned files
        if: steps.semantic.outputs.new_release_published == 'true'
        run: python3 script/sync_version.py "${{ steps.semantic.outputs.new_release_version }}"
 
      - name: Semantic Release
        uses: cycjimmy/semantic-release-action@v4
        with:
          semantic_version: 23.0.2
          branches: |
            [ 'main', {name: 'dev', channel: 'dev', prerelease: true} ]
          extra_plugins: |
            @semantic-release/commit-analyzer@11.1.0
            @semantic-release/release-notes-generator@12.1.0
            @semantic-release/git@10.0.1
            @semantic-release/github@9.2.6
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GIT_GITHUB_TOKEN || github.token }}

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.
Cache dependency installs on the setup step so they are served from cache.
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 4 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 actions/setup-node