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GitHub Action

Workflow Queue

v1.0.1

Workflow Queue

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Workflow Queue

If the same workflow is already running from a previous commit, wait for it to finish

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

 
              
- name: Workflow Queue

              
  uses: ahmadnassri/action-workflow-queue@v1.0.1
Learn more about this action in ahmadnassri/action-workflow-queue

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GitHub Action: Workflow Run Wait

If the same workflow is already running from a previous commit, wait for it to finish

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Why?

Workflows run on every commit asynchronously, this is fine for most cases, however, you might want to wait for a previous commit workflow to finish before running another one, some example use-cases:

  • Deployment workflows
  • Terraform workflows
  • Database Migrations

Usage

.github/workflows/my-workflow.yml
jobs:
  xyz:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: ahmadnassri/action-workflow-queue@v1

      # only runs additional steps if there is no other instance of `my-workflow.yml` currently running

Inputs

input required default description
github-token ❌ github.token The GitHub token used to call the GitHub API
timeout ❌ 600000 timeout before we stop trying (in milliseconds)
delay ❌ 10000 delay between status checks (in milliseconds)

Author: Ahmad Nassri • Twitter: @AhmadNassri