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dependencies between actions not enforced

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
docker, github-actions

Research direction

Start by inspecting the GitHub Action flows that build the base containers and compare them with the example run linked in the issue. Trace which container builds depend on another and choose a workflow dependency structure that prevents dependent builds from starting too early. Done means the dependent containers consistently wait for their required base containers to become available.

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Description

There are a number of dependencies between the base containers (for example, "PHP 7.2 Apache2 Node14 Composer2" depends on the "PHP 7.2 Apache2" container), but those are not expressed in the github action flows. This can cause race issues because the dependent container starts building before the dependency is available. See for example https://github.com/OpenConext/OpenConext-BaseContainers/actions/runs/11322704037/attempts/1.

I'm not sure how to solve this, except for creating a single workflow with multiple stages.

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