Cancel remote run after timeout is reached

[oskar-s9s]

It would be nice to have an option to cancel the remote run if timeout is reached.

Real life use-case:

1. trigger tests from main workflow, set timeout to 30 minutes
2. tests run 60 minutes
3. main workflow timeouts and run cleanup job which deletes test environment ;-)
4. tests still run
5. no profit

:-)

[Codex-]

Hmmm this is an interesting one, I see the use and how it would be nice to determine the time you're willing to wait from the caller side, generally these should be set on the executors side

You'd want to fire a request to cancel the run after the timeout specified on the await-remote-run inputs has been reached, right?

[carlobeltrame]

I don't strictly have the same use case, but I was searching for a way to transitively cancel the triggered remote workflow when the main workflow is canceled. For anyone with the same requirement, this can be accomplished with the following additional step:

      - name: Cancel remote run
        if: ${{ cancelled() && steps.return-dispatch.outputs.run_id }}
        run: 'gh api --method POST -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" /repos/OWNER/REPO/actions/runs/${{ steps.return-dispatch.outputs.run_id }}/cancel'
        env:
          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.TOKEN }}