Timeouts

Set timeouts on playbooks to automatically cancel their execution after a specified duration. This helps prevent playbooks from running for too long and consuming resources.

Default timeout

Mission Control sets a default timeout of 30 minutes for all playbooks. You can change this default globally by setting the playbook.run.timeout property in your Mission Control configuration.

The timeout accepts any valid duration format. This global timeout setting serves as the fallback for all playbooks that don't define their own specific timeout value.

Playbook-level timeout

You can set a timeout for the entire playbook using the timeout field in the playbook spec:

apiVersion: mission-control.flanksource.com/v1
kind: Playbook
metadata:
  name: example-playbook
spec:
  timeout: 1h
  actions:
    - name: Long running task
      exec:
        script: |
          ... # long running task

Action-level timeout

Individual actions within a playbook can also have their own timeouts:

apiVersion: mission-control.flanksource.com/v1
kind: Playbook
metadata:
  name: example-playbook
spec:
  actions:
    - name: Quick task
      timeout: 5m
      exec:
        script: |
          ... # quick task
    - name: Longer task
      timeout: 30m
      exec:
        script: |
          ... # longer task

If an action specifies a timeout longer than the playbook's timeout, the playbook timeout takes precedence. Mission Control stops the action when it reaches the playbook timeout.