Add re-run logic when the job failed

[xaidu]

I find that Gocd currently does not support automatic retry for failed jobs. It always needs to be manually triggered and re-run.
https://docs.gocd.org/current/faq/job_rerun.html
Sometimes re-run is important when the tests are flakness.

Do we have a config to add re-run times for the failed jobs and let the failed job re-run automatically?

[chadlwilson]

GoCD doesn't have automatic re-run-on-fail logic no, which is why there is nothing in the docs.

You can add a special task that runs only (once) on failure of any previous task in a job but that is probably not what you want.

The general perspective of GoCD is such logic is hard to make flexible enough across all different tools and ecosystems and generally you want to rerun only on certain exit codes or errors which are best handled within a build tool, or with your own shell scripting that wraps the calls to your tasks and can rerun based on exit codes flexibly.

[chadlwilson]

Most test frameworks and tools have re-run support built into them that allow you to designate flakey tests and rerun only those a configurable number of times, which would also be more efficient.