[Self hosted] Keep track of machine state to minimise waiting time

[hershd23]

Current Behavior

Currently we are arbitrarily waiting 10 minutes waiting for the server to get provisioned and started.

meshery-smp-action/.github/workflows/scripts/start-cil-runner.sh

Line 27 in 20c0b6f

# Wait 10 minutes until the machine is running

Desired Behavior

We want to optimise on our waiting time by keeping track of the state variable by the machine

Implementation

The logic of this can look like

• If "state" == "provisioning", sleep 10s...
• If "state" == "active", echo "Machine successfully created!" and continue.
• If "state" == "failed", echo "Failed to create machine" and exit.

in the above mentioned bash script.

A little experimentation might be required based on the intervals on which we poll. (We do not want cause anything that might come under a DOS attack :) )

Acceptance Tests

A link to the self-hosted workflow run would be key to get your changes accepted

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Contributor Guide

[gyohuangxin]

Thank you for opening this issue and it's good to be thoughtful about time intervals. Can you look into this?

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