publish_conda workflow (sepandhaghighi/art)

The publish_conda workflow from sepandhaghighi/art, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

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Source: sepandhaghighi/art.github/workflows/publish_conda.yamlLicense MITView source

What it does

This is the publish_conda workflow from the sepandhaghighi/art 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: publish_conda

on:
  push:
    # Sequence of patterns matched against refs/tags
    tags:
      - '*' # Push events to matching v*, i.e. v1.0, v20.15.10

jobs:
  publish:
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
      - name: publish-to-conda
        uses: sepandhaghighi/conda-package-publish-action@v1.2
        with:
          subDir: 'otherfile'
          AnacondaToken: ${{ secrets.ANACONDA_TOKEN }}

The same workflow, on Latchkey

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

name: publish_conda
 
on:
  push:
    # Sequence of patterns matched against refs/tags
    tags:
      - '*' # Push events to matching v*, i.e. v1.0, v20.15.10
 
concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
  cancel-in-progress: true
 
jobs:
  publish:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
      - name: publish-to-conda
        uses: sepandhaghighi/conda-package-publish-action@v1.2
        with:
          subDir: 'otherfile'
          AnacondaToken: ${{ secrets.ANACONDA_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Cancel superseded runs when a branch or PR gets a newer push.
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 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

actions/checkout