Conditional workflow step

[Antony Seedhouse]

Hello,

Has it been considered to have conditional workflow steps? I.e. execute the step if(something)?

For example, I have daily job, which runs every day, and a weekly job every Monday, and a monthly job on the 1st day of the month.

I want the jobs to run consecutively, and not simply calling one big bash script - that's what I moved to rundeck to get away from :)

In my daily control job, I would want a step to be, "if today is monday, trigger the weekly job".

Or am I missing an obvious already existing solution?

Thanks,
Antony

[kcd]

Hi

Could you do this with an error handler step. i.e. end the previous step with if Monday exit 1 else exit 0

Also for your particular example you would be better to schedule every Monday.

k

[Moses Lei]

Is there any reason they must run consecutively? If not I'd just schedule the weekly as a separate job and the monthly as a separate job.

One workaround for conditionals that truly must be conditional, more than RunDeck has built in, is to use RunDeck's "run" command. i.e. Have a script step with the conditional evaluated in whatever scripting language (bash would do, usually) and have the appropriate then clause execute "run -j jobname". If you need to block until the job is finished you can use -f (follow) option as well.

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[Antony Seedhouse]

They're run consecutively because they are database heavy (ETL) jobs. Running concurrently is slower than after each other :)

The workaround you suggested is what I came up with too and is what I'm doing for now.