balena "draft" releases to force through broken / failed releases
shawaj opened this issue · comments
We are regularly getting issues where balena releases are failing with ESOCKETTIMEDOUT errors. For example ...
https://github.com/NebraLtd/helium-miner-software/actions/runs/1535610752/attempts/2
It is possible to force these through manually using the --draft flag:
balena deploy nebraltd/helium-indoor-868 --logs --debug --nocache --build --draft
and then finalising the release using either balena CLI or by finding the release in balenaCloud and finalising it from the dropdown.
Whilst this is a bit of a workaround, it does seem to work most of the time.
Need to add this to documentation and/or change the deploy actions to use this flow
FYI @vpetersson
created a manually triggerable action for draft deploys in #294
We can probably find a way to output the release tag and then finalise the release either in the same action or in a separate manually triggerable action. But this should be helpful as a starting point in any case
Sadly this hasn't helped with github actions / balena.
Still will likely work manually but really balena need to sort this out as it's impractical to do this manually every time for 14 fleets