We are trying to setup buildkite, but were surprised to find that there is no way to prioritize some branches. We use aws with autoscaling. Usecase: We want builds from master branch to be connected to agents first (before other branches). Usually, CI has a “priority branches” setting or way to …

We’d also like to see this. We have a limited pool of agents that each is connected to some custom HW. We’d like to be able to use buildkite as a reservation system of sorts. When a user manually runs a build, it would be great if these builds would take priority over scheduled or triggered builds.

I run Buildkite in a kubernetes cluster. I put together different pods of buildkite-agent with different “resource_class” tags, and agent priorities. In the way I have set it up, our scheduled builds uses a smaller pool of agents and our rebuilar builds uses a larger pool of agents. With the agent …

FWIW I’d love to see this too. This is the one feature I was surprised to find missing. We run the usual automated builds and manual builds, and would like to be able to ask Buildkite to schedule manual builds over all others. When I raised this initially it was suggested we run separate high-prior…

100% on this Feature! We have many developers submitting PRs, and when merged, they generate many more jobs than are run pre-merge. For example, a proposed changeset to our Android app directory will run about common jobs and about 5 Android test jobs, for a total of 10 jobs, but then post-merge ru…

Hi @josh ! Welcome to the community! :slightly_smiling_face: We’re in the middle of strategic planning which will inform our product roadmap, and job priority is definitely on our map, but unfortunately, we don’t have a resolution time yet. When is ready, it’s going to be informed in our changelog .…

Just echoing @josh , this’d be a really valuable piece of functionality, as we often have a lot of builds in flight, but would always want to prioritise master without needing to cancel a bunch of other builds temporarily (which is our current workaround)

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josh August 19, 2021, 9:02pm 6

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