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Version: v1.8

Timeout of Step

note

You need to upgrade to version 1.5+ to use the timeout feature.

This section introduces how to add timeout to workflow steps in KubeVela.

In KubeVela workflow, each step can specify a timeout, you can use timeout to specify the timeout time for the step.

timeout follows the duration format, e.g. 30s, 1m, etc. You can refer to Golang's parseDuration.

If a step is not completed within the specified time, KubeVela will set the status of the step to failed and the Reason of the step will be set to Timeout.

Apply the following example:

apiVersion: core.oam.dev/v1beta1
kind: Application
metadata:
name: timeout-example
namespace: default
spec:
components:
- name: comp1
type: webservice
properties:
image: crccheck/hello-world
port: 8000
- name: comp2
type: webservice
properties:
image: crccheck/hello-world
port: 8000
workflow:
steps:
- name: apply-comp1
type: apply-component
properties:
component: comp1
- name: suspend
type: suspend
timeout: 5s
- name: apply-comp2
type: apply-component
properties:
component: comp2

Use vela status to check the status of the Application:

$ vela status timeout-example
About:

Name: timeout-example
Namespace: default
Created at: 2022-06-25 00:51:43 +0800 CST
Status: workflowTerminated

Workflow:

mode: StepByStep
finished: true
Suspend: false
Terminated: true
Steps
- id:1f58n13qdp
name:apply-comp1
type:apply-component
phase:succeeded
message:
- id:1pfije4ugt
name:suspend
type:suspend
phase:failed
message:
- id:lqxyenjxj4
name:apply-comp2
type:apply-component
phase:skipped
message:

Services:

- Name: comp1
Cluster: local Namespace: default
Type: webservice
Healthy Ready:1/1
No trait applied

As you can see, when the first component is successfully deployed, the workflow is suspended on the second suspend step. The suspend step is set with a timeout of five seconds. If the workflow is not resumed within five seconds, the step will fail because of timeout. The third step is skipped because the previous suspend step failed.