Success and Failure promotion steps?

[danielloader]

Currently I'm using the http step to do a slack message when the promotion has succeeded, but it's dawned on me I'd probably like a message if there's a failure state in any of the previous steps.

Is this possible?

[krancour]

Promotions stop on the first failure, so you wouldn't reach your http step, but I think your use case seems perfectly valid. I think we'd first need to introduce one or more of the following:

• A step-level option that indicates the Promotion may continue even if the step fails. (Although I think most processes would then encounter additional failures on subsequent steps, this might not be as useful as it sounds at first.)

• Something like "catch" to define a separate sequence of steps for when the main process fails.

• Something like "finally" to define a separate sequence of steps that runs no matter what.

[danielloader]

Glad you've had a think about it, I too didn't know how you'd handle it.

Github actions is famously bad in this regard and can't exit early on failure of any step, nor can it run a catch all on error.

Anything that works vaguely like that would be appreciated for notifications.

[krancour]

I'm going to convert this to an issue since it's actionable.

[jornh]

Back link to that issue: #3228