SRE-803: Retry "Launch external services" step in Tests workflow#9016
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The docker compose up (buildx bake under the hood) can fail with transient BuildKit rpc errors on individual runners, failing the integration job before any test runs. Wrap the step in nick-fields/retry (3 attempts) to absorb the noise.
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Apply the identical nick-fields/retry wrapping to the two "Launch external services" steps in the Benches workflow, which run the same docker compose command and hit the same transient BuildKit rpc errors (e.g. on main in run 29027294274). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019YPgwWiuoovZGU6iCazLPx
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Pull request overview
This PR improves CI resilience by retrying the “Launch external services” step in workflows where transient BuildKit/Buildx RPC failures on individual GitHub runners can fail jobs before any tests/benches run.
Changes:
- Wraps
docker compose --profile dev up -dinnick-fields/retry(3 attempts, 15s backoff, 15m timeout) in the Tests workflow. - Applies the same retry wrapper to both identical “Launch external services” steps in the Benches workflow.
- Adjusts the command to
cd infra/compose && ...since the retry action doesn’t supportworking-directory.
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| File | Description |
|---|---|
| .github/workflows/test.yml | Retries the integration job’s external-services bring-up to absorb transient BuildKit runner failures. |
| .github/workflows/bench.yml | Adds the same retry wrapper to both bench jobs’ external-services bring-up steps for consistency and stability. |
Benchmark results
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| Function | Value | Mean | Flame graphs |
|---|---|---|---|
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: empty, selectivity: high, policies: 2002 | Flame Graph | |
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: empty, selectivity: low, policies: 1 | Flame Graph | |
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: empty, selectivity: medium, policies: 1002 | Flame Graph | |
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: seeded, selectivity: high, policies: 3314 | Flame Graph | |
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: seeded, selectivity: low, policies: 1 | Flame Graph | |
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: seeded, selectivity: medium, policies: 1527 | Flame Graph | |
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: system, selectivity: high, policies: 2078 | Flame Graph | |
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: system, selectivity: low, policies: 1 | Flame Graph | |
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: system, selectivity: medium, policies: 1033 | Flame Graph |
policy_resolution_medium
| Function | Value | Mean | Flame graphs |
|---|---|---|---|
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: empty, selectivity: high, policies: 102 | Flame Graph | |
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: empty, selectivity: low, policies: 1 | Flame Graph | |
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: empty, selectivity: medium, policies: 52 | Flame Graph | |
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: seeded, selectivity: high, policies: 269 | Flame Graph | |
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: seeded, selectivity: low, policies: 1 | Flame Graph | |
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: seeded, selectivity: medium, policies: 108 | Flame Graph | |
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: system, selectivity: high, policies: 133 | Flame Graph | |
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: system, selectivity: low, policies: 1 | Flame Graph | |
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: system, selectivity: medium, policies: 63 | Flame Graph |
policy_resolution_none
| Function | Value | Mean | Flame graphs |
|---|---|---|---|
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: empty, selectivity: high, policies: 2 | Flame Graph | |
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: empty, selectivity: low, policies: 1 | Flame Graph | |
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: empty, selectivity: medium, policies: 2 | Flame Graph | |
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: system, selectivity: high, policies: 8 | Flame Graph | |
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: system, selectivity: low, policies: 1 | Flame Graph | |
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: system, selectivity: medium, policies: 3 | Flame Graph |
policy_resolution_small
| Function | Value | Mean | Flame graphs |
|---|---|---|---|
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: empty, selectivity: high, policies: 52 | Flame Graph | |
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: empty, selectivity: low, policies: 1 | Flame Graph | |
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: empty, selectivity: medium, policies: 26 | Flame Graph | |
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: seeded, selectivity: high, policies: 94 | Flame Graph | |
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: seeded, selectivity: low, policies: 1 | Flame Graph | |
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: seeded, selectivity: medium, policies: 27 | Flame Graph | |
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: system, selectivity: high, policies: 66 | Flame Graph | |
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: system, selectivity: low, policies: 1 | Flame Graph | |
| resolve_policies_for_actor | user: system, selectivity: medium, policies: 29 | Flame Graph |
read_scaling_complete
| Function | Value | Mean | Flame graphs |
|---|---|---|---|
| entity_by_id;one_depth | 1 entities | Flame Graph | |
| entity_by_id;one_depth | 10 entities | Flame Graph | |
| entity_by_id;one_depth | 25 entities | Flame Graph | |
| entity_by_id;one_depth | 5 entities | Flame Graph | |
| entity_by_id;one_depth | 50 entities | Flame Graph | |
| entity_by_id;two_depth | 1 entities | Flame Graph | |
| entity_by_id;two_depth | 10 entities | Flame Graph | |
| entity_by_id;two_depth | 25 entities | Flame Graph | |
| entity_by_id;two_depth | 5 entities | Flame Graph | |
| entity_by_id;two_depth | 50 entities | Flame Graph | |
| entity_by_id;zero_depth | 1 entities | Flame Graph | |
| entity_by_id;zero_depth | 10 entities | Flame Graph | |
| entity_by_id;zero_depth | 25 entities | Flame Graph | |
| entity_by_id;zero_depth | 5 entities | Flame Graph | |
| entity_by_id;zero_depth | 50 entities | Flame Graph |
read_scaling_linkless
| Function | Value | Mean | Flame graphs |
|---|---|---|---|
| entity_by_id | 1 entities | Flame Graph | |
| entity_by_id | 10 entities | Flame Graph | |
| entity_by_id | 100 entities | Flame Graph | |
| entity_by_id | 1000 entities | Flame Graph | |
| entity_by_id | 10000 entities | Flame Graph |
representative_read_entity
| Function | Value | Mean | Flame graphs |
|---|---|---|---|
| entity_by_id | entity type ID: https://blockprotocol.org/@alice/types/entity-type/block/v/1
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Flame Graph | |
| entity_by_id | entity type ID: https://blockprotocol.org/@alice/types/entity-type/book/v/1
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Flame Graph | |
| entity_by_id | entity type ID: https://blockprotocol.org/@alice/types/entity-type/building/v/1
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Flame Graph | |
| entity_by_id | entity type ID: https://blockprotocol.org/@alice/types/entity-type/organization/v/1
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Flame Graph | |
| entity_by_id | entity type ID: https://blockprotocol.org/@alice/types/entity-type/page/v/2
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Flame Graph | |
| entity_by_id | entity type ID: https://blockprotocol.org/@alice/types/entity-type/person/v/1
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Flame Graph | |
| entity_by_id | entity type ID: https://blockprotocol.org/@alice/types/entity-type/playlist/v/1
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Flame Graph | |
| entity_by_id | entity type ID: https://blockprotocol.org/@alice/types/entity-type/song/v/1
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Flame Graph | |
| entity_by_id | entity type ID: https://blockprotocol.org/@alice/types/entity-type/uk-address/v/1
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Flame Graph |
representative_read_entity_type
| Function | Value | Mean | Flame graphs |
|---|---|---|---|
| get_entity_type_by_id | Account ID: bf5a9ef5-dc3b-43cf-a291-6210c0321eba
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Flame Graph |
representative_read_multiple_entities
| Function | Value | Mean | Flame graphs |
|---|---|---|---|
| entity_by_property | traversal_paths=0 | 0 | |
| entity_by_property | traversal_paths=255 | 1,resolve_depths=inherit:1;values:255;properties:255;links:127;link_dests:126;type:true | |
| entity_by_property | traversal_paths=2 | 1,resolve_depths=inherit:0;values:0;properties:0;links:0;link_dests:0;type:false | |
| entity_by_property | traversal_paths=2 | 1,resolve_depths=inherit:0;values:0;properties:0;links:1;link_dests:0;type:true | |
| entity_by_property | traversal_paths=2 | 1,resolve_depths=inherit:0;values:0;properties:2;links:1;link_dests:0;type:true | |
| entity_by_property | traversal_paths=2 | 1,resolve_depths=inherit:0;values:2;properties:2;links:1;link_dests:0;type:true | |
| link_by_source_by_property | traversal_paths=0 | 0 | |
| link_by_source_by_property | traversal_paths=255 | 1,resolve_depths=inherit:1;values:255;properties:255;links:127;link_dests:126;type:true | |
| link_by_source_by_property | traversal_paths=2 | 1,resolve_depths=inherit:0;values:0;properties:0;links:0;link_dests:0;type:false | |
| link_by_source_by_property | traversal_paths=2 | 1,resolve_depths=inherit:0;values:0;properties:0;links:1;link_dests:0;type:true | |
| link_by_source_by_property | traversal_paths=2 | 1,resolve_depths=inherit:0;values:0;properties:2;links:1;link_dests:0;type:true | |
| link_by_source_by_property | traversal_paths=2 | 1,resolve_depths=inherit:0;values:2;properties:2;links:1;link_dests:0;type:true |
scenarios
| Function | Value | Mean | Flame graphs |
|---|---|---|---|
| full_test | query-limited | Flame Graph | |
| full_test | query-unlimited | Flame Graph | |
| linked_queries | query-limited | Flame Graph | |
| linked_queries | query-unlimited | Flame Graph |
Requested by Tim Diekmann · Slack thread
🌟 What is the purpose of this PR?
Before: a single transient BuildKit failure in the "Launch external services" step (e.g.
target hydra: failed to receive status: rpc error: code = Unavailable desc = error reading from server: EOF) fails the whole integration job before any test runs — sibling jobs in the same run pass the identical step, so it's per-runner infrastructure noise.After: the step retries up to 3 times (15s between attempts), so transient BuildKit failures are absorbed and only persistent failures fail the job.
How: in
.github/workflows/test.yml, thedocker compose --profile dev up -dinvocation of theintegration-testsjob is wrapped innick-fields/retry, using the same SHA-pinned version and style the repo already uses elsewhere (warm-up-repo,install-tools,deploy.yml, …). The two identical steps in.github/workflows/bench.ymlget the same wrapping, since the same failure also fired onmainin the Benches workflow.🔗 Related links
main🔍 What does this change?
nick-fields/retry(max_attempts: 3,retry_wait_seconds: 15,timeout_minutes: 15) — intest.yml, and in both copies of the identical step inbench.yml.working-directory, so the commandcds intoinfra/composeitself (same pattern asdeploy.yml).Pre-Merge Checklist 🚀
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