Distinct job for each schedule

[mhitza]

I have a backup.yml workflow which I use for automated database backup. I’ve started with a workflow that schedules hourly, however, I want to include in a single workflow multiple backup jobs. Hourly, daily, weekly, etc.

Is there a way for me to conditionally skip a job in the workflow if the workflow was not triggered by the desired schedule? For example:

jobs:
  hourly:
    if: invoked by an hourly trigger
  daily:
    if: invoked by a daily trigger

  

[weide-zhou]

Hi @mhitza ,

Thank you for being here! If you’d like a single workflow to include multiple schedule jobs, you can add multiple ‘corn’ expression for schedule event, sample as below, you can use ‘cron: ‘*/60 * * * *’’ for hourly…etc.(doc here)

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '*/5 * * * *' # every 5 mins
    - cron: '*/7 * * * *' # every 7 mins

For different schedule, the github has different context, for intance, 7mins schedule:

You can use if expression to conditionally skip the other jobs then.

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '*/5 * * * *'
    - cron: '*/7 * * * *'
jobs:
  job1:
    if: contains(github.event.schedule, '*/7 * * * *')
    runs-on: [ubuntu-latest]
    steps:
      - name: response when schedule 7 mins
        run: |
          echo this is 7 minutes schedule
  job2:
    if: contains(github.event.schedule, '*/5 * * * *')
    runs-on: [ubuntu-latest]
    steps:
      - name: response when schedule 5 mins
        run: |
          echo this is 5 minutes schedule

Hope it helps.

[mrchief]

Adding this to the official docs would be mighty helpful!

[dhimmel]

Noting 154811 and 167893 which are similar questions.

@weide-zhou thanks for sharing a solution that allows:

1. multiple cron schedules
2. conditional behavior based on which schedule triggered the workflow

The use case for 2 (conditional behavior) would be assisted with the ability to assign a unique ID to each schedule.

on:
  schedule:
    - name: job_x
      cron: '1 0 1 * *' # once a month
    - name: job_y
      cron: '1 0 1 * *' # also once a month, schedule value not unique

Then we could add conditions based on github.event.schedule.name (or whatever this gets called), which would be both more readable and allow for conditional behavior for multiple redundant schedules .

[dimich99]

github.event.schedule.name - is this implemented?

[wazawoo]

Any reasoning on using contains vs ==?