Start "services" in a job that has a reusable workflow

[cezar-tech]

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Since this is not solved here: actions/runner#822

I'm in need of finding workarounds. The issue is many projects will use a reusable workflow, but each project has its own needs for service containers, and absolutely none of them need all services at once, which would happen if I just keep adding services in my reusable workflow's job.

The services are required for integration tests in my repos.

As an example's sake, maybe this can be easier to achieve:

jobs:
  main:
    uses: path/to/my/reusable/workflow/workflow.yaml@branch
    services: # start only the services required for my particular case, and not all of them inside the reusable workflow
      consul: # consul's container config, not relevant for the example
      vault: # vault's container config, not relevant for the example

Let's say I have projects that need distinct services, how can I achieve this without starting up all of them inside my reusable workflow ?

[artembilan]

I bumped to this problem as well.
We have a pretty complicated reusable workflow for releasing our projects.
However, even if build and release lifecycle is similar for all the caller projects, every of them might require their own set of service containers: Redis, RabbitMQ, MySQL etc.

Would really be great if such a services section would be propagated down to the reusable workflow job.

As a workaround we have to rework all our tests to use Testcontainers.

Thanks

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[artembilan]

Apparently this has to be asked somewhere in this org instead: https://github.com/actions