Explore jobs

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Workflows contain one or more jobs. A job is a set of steps that will be run in order on a runner.

Steps within a job execute on the same runner and share the same filesystem.

The logs produced by jobs are searchable, and artifacts produced can be saved.

Jobs with dependencies

By default, if a workflow contains multiple jobs, they run in parallel.

jobs:
  startup:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:

      - run: ./setup_server_configuration.sh
  build:
    steps:

      - run: ./build_new_server.sh

Sometimes you might need one job to wait for another job to complete.

You can do that by defining dependencies between the jobs.

jobs:
  startup:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:

      - run: ./setup_server_configuration.sh
  build:
    needs: startup
    steps:

      - run: ./build_new_server.sh

Note

If the startup job in the example above fails, the build job won't execute.

For more information on job dependencies, see the section Creating Dependent Jobs at Managing complex workflows.