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Support automatic retry of failed builds
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Aaron
It would be great if CircleCI allowed you to configure an automatic retry of a build upon failure. Ideally, you would be able to specify the max number of times you would like it to retry.
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Ernest Katta
we need this feature. especially for QA framework executions
Evgeniy Sabilin
We need this
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Brian Carp
I came here looking for this. Such a thing would be very helpful to resolve an issue with certain steps that interact with external services or steps that have to wait for resources to load that are irreparably flaky. Please consider adding a
max_retries
parameter or something similar!Eddie Shafaq
With GH merge queue this would be great feature to prevent the merge train from being stuck
Ash O'Farrell
This would definitely come in handy for situations where the failure is very likely to be transient. For instance, we run a link checker, and that will fail during brief outages of the websites we are linking to.
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Jonathan Arnett
We have some custom bash logic to retry our test suite when it fails. However, retrying the test suite is _slow_, as you would imagine. I would love greater visibility into transient failures without failing people's builds, so that they can be investigated.
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AJ Schmidt
Would also like to see this implemented. Any updates here?
Ivan Artemiev
I think what most of us are looking for is essentially being able to automatically execute “Rerun Workflow From Failed” n times when a job fails.
It's easy enough to retry a step with some basic bash logic, however, particularly when running integration tests we occasionally run into transient memory issues that require the job itself to be rerun in a new container. This cannot be achieved via bash or orbs to my best knowledge.
I know that it's possible to retry an entire pipeline by making an API call to CircleCI when: on_fail but that is wasteful when only 1 or 2 jobs are failing in a workflow consisting of dozens of jobs.
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Sean Carolan
Any update on this? Folks have been asking for it in your forums since 2017. Other CI systems have this out of the box. We really don't like having to manually hit the retry button every time a build fails due to external issues...
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Jhonn Frazao
I need something like this feature in Gitlab CI https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#retry when a job fails, the job will retry.
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