Disable environment protection wait timer in workflow when not needed

[nagaraj-s-kharvi]

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After successfully deploying my application to Azure App Service, I want to ensure its health by implementing an environment protection rule. The rule will introduce a 5-minute wait period after the deployment is completed on the Azure side. Once the wait period is over, I will perform an HTTPS call in a GitHub Actions job to check the health of my Azure App Service application. In case the health check fails, I will initiate a rollback to the previous version.

Need/Implementation:
Have configured development environment with wait timer of 5 min.
-> Deploy the code to azure app service (While ignoring wait time for development env before running the job)
-> Do the API health check (While considering wait time for development env before running the job)

I have made attempts to fulfill my previous requirement in a couple of ways.
The first workflow snippet that I implemented is functioning correctly.

However, when I tried using the strategy: matrix: environment: [development] protection: [not-required] approach, it caused issues with the code responsible for deploying to Azure.

I am facing a challenge where I want to exclude the protection (wait timer) functionality in my strategy code. However, when I do so, it also ignores the environment configuration. Consequently, variables like env.AZURE_APP_SERVICE_NAME are not being recognized because the environment is being ignored. I'm looking for a solution that allows me to exclude the protection while still considering the environment configuration. Is there any way to accomplish this?

[GhostOf0days]

You can use conditional expressions (only if) in your steps:
for instance (note this wouldn't be your implementation, but will give you an idea):
  steps:
    - name: Deploy to Azure
      if: matrix.protection == 'not-required' || matrix.environment == 'development'
      run: ...

    - name: Wait 5 minutes
      if: matrix.protection == 'not-required' && matrix.environment == 'development'
      run: sleep 300s 
      shell: bash

   Then do your health check. Steps execute in order and are dependent on each other, so it won't exexcute the health check until the 5 minutes are up.

[GhostOf0days]

I have no clue why this got posted like that without using ```. Sorry.

[GhostOf0days]

Just so you know, the maximum an action can run for is 6 hours.

[nagaraj-s-kharvi]

Thanks for the reply, Wanted to tell you that to avoid incurring unnecessary billing on GitHub Actions, I'm considering an alternative approach instead of adding a sleep of 300 seconds @GhostOf0days

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