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feat: Add rate limit handling for GitHub client #4926

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@itays333 itays333 commented Sep 16, 2024 •
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What

  • Add retry mechanism for GitHub API secondary rate limit
  • Implement a retry mechanism for GitHub client API calls when encountering secondary rate limit responses.

Why

  • In large-scale deployments, a single PR can affect hundreds of projects.
  • When attempting to plan/apply for a non-mergeable PR, Atlantis may try to set the PR status hundreds of times in a short period, triggering GitHub's secondary API rate limit.
  • This results in Atlantis appearing to stop mid-operation: some projects are marked as failed, and no comments are posted.
  • This issue can occur in other scenarios where Atlantis is used at scale.

Implementation

  • Utilize the go-github-ratelimit library, as recommended in the official go-github README:

    "You can use go-github-ratelimit to handle secondary rate limit sleep-and-retry for you."

Testing

  • Added a test that verifies an API request completes successfully after responding with API secondary rate limit errors multiple times.

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@itays333 itays333 requested review from a team as code owners September 16, 2024 08:39
@itays333 itays333 requested review from jamengual, lukemassa and nitrocode and removed request for a team September 16, 2024 08:39
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itays333 commented Sep 16, 2024
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server/events/vcs/github_client.go
@@ -121,23 +122,28 @@ func NewGithubClient(hostname string, credentials GithubCredentials, config Gith
return nil, errors.Wrap(err, "error initializing github authentication transport")
}

transportWithRateLimit, err := github_ratelimit.NewRateLimitWaiterClient(transport.Transport, github_ratelimit.WithTotalSleepLimit(time.Minute, nil))
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regarding WithTotalSleepLimit(time.Minute, nil) - not sure how long we want to keep retry, and if this should be configurable

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We are trying to limit as much as possible adding more flags, so maybe we can add this to the repo.Yaml instead.

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is something like this acceptable? open to suggestions

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git:
  github:
     secondary_rate_limit_duration: 60

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yeah, repo config would be a good idea.

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Can I suggest starting with the hard-coded 1 minute value that you currently have, so that we can get this PR finished. It can always be refined later to make it configurable.

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server/events/vcs/github_client.go
@@ -121,23 +122,28 @@ func NewGithubClient(hostname string, credentials GithubCredentials, config Gith
return nil, errors.Wrap(err, "error initializing github authentication transport")
}

transportWithRateLimit, err := github_ratelimit.NewRateLimitWaiterClient(transport.Transport, github_ratelimit.WithTotalSleepLimit(time.Minute, nil))
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How about adding a callback to these that log an info message so that we can see when they are being triggered?

server/events/vcs/github_client.go
@@ -121,23 +122,28 @@ func NewGithubClient(hostname string, credentials GithubCredentials, config Gith
return nil, errors.Wrap(err, "error initializing github authentication transport")
}

transportWithRateLimit, err := github_ratelimit.NewRateLimitWaiterClient(transport.Transport, github_ratelimit.WithTotalSleepLimit(time.Minute, nil))
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Can I suggest starting with the hard-coded 1 minute value that you currently have, so that we can get this PR finished. It can always be refined later to make it configurable.

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