What is the difference between a mutex and a semaphore in this skill?

A mutex provides exclusive access for only one workflow at a time to a shared resource, whereas a semaphore allows a predefined number of workflows to run in parallel.

What is a TTL strategy in workflow management?

A Time-To-Live (TTL) strategy automatically deletes or cleans up completed workflows after a specified duration, preventing unbounded growth of historical data and saving cluster resources.

How does this skill improve Argo Workflows stability?

It provides standardized implementation patterns for Argo's native concurrency features, helping you avoid race conditions where multiple builds might write to the same directory or ConfigMap.

When should I choose a mutex over a semaphore?

You should start with a mutex for simplicity when you need to ensure only one process touches a resource. Switch to a semaphore only when you need to optimize throughput by allowing limited, controlled parallelism.

Workflow Concurrency Control

Name: Workflow Concurrency Control
Author: adaptive-enforcement-lab

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Despliegue y DevOps

Prevents workflow conflicts and resource corruption using mutex synchronization, semaphores, and automated TTL cleanup strategies.

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This skill provides specialized guidance for managing concurrent operations within automation platforms, specifically focusing on patterns used in Argo Workflows. It helps developers prevent race conditions and system instability by implementing mutexes for exclusive resource access, semaphores for throttled parallelism, and Time-To-Live (TTL) strategies for automatic resource cleanup. By applying these patterns, users can ensure that simultaneous deployments or builds do not corrupt shared directories, ConfigMaps, or environment states, leading to more resilient and predictable CI/CD pipelines.

Características Principales

Semaphore configuration for controlled parallel execution
Resource conflict identification and mapping
Anti-pattern detection for shared resource management
Automated TTL strategies for workflow resource cleanup
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Mutex synchronization for exclusive resource locking

Casos de Uso

Implementing automatic cleanup of completed workflow pods to maintain cluster health
Throttling concurrent build jobs to prevent infrastructure resource exhaustion
Preventing simultaneous deployments to a single production environment

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Características Principales

Semaphore configuration for controlled parallel execution
Resource conflict identification and mapping
Anti-pattern detection for shared resource management
Automated TTL strategies for workflow resource cleanup
0 GitHub stars
Mutex synchronization for exclusive resource locking

Casos de Uso

Implementing automatic cleanup of completed workflow pods to maintain cluster health
Throttling concurrent build jobs to prevent infrastructure resource exhaustion
Preventing simultaneous deployments to a single production environment