Action Lint workflow (strawberry-graphql/strawberry-django)

The Action Lint workflow from strawberry-graphql/strawberry-django, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

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Source: strawberry-graphql/strawberry-django.github/workflows/actionlint.ymlLicense MITView source

What it does

This is the Action Lint workflow from the strawberry-graphql/strawberry-django 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: Action Lint

# yamllint disable-line rule:truthy
on:
  pull_request: {}
  push:
    branches:
      - main

jobs:
  actionlint:
    name: Check
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Check workflow files
        run: |
          echo "::add-matcher::.github/actionlint-matcher.json"
          bash <(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rhysd/actionlint/main/scripts/download-actionlint.bash)
          ./actionlint -color
        shell: bash

The same workflow, on Latchkey

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

---
name: Action Lint
 
# yamllint disable-line rule:truthy
on:
  pull_request: {}
  push:
    branches:
      - main
 
concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
  cancel-in-progress: true
 
jobs:
  actionlint:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    name: Check
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Check workflow files
        run: |
          echo "::add-matcher::.github/actionlint-matcher.json"
          bash <(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rhysd/actionlint/main/scripts/download-actionlint.bash)
          ./actionlint -color
        shell: bash

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Cancel superseded runs when a branch or PR gets a newer push.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

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