CLOUDP-304706: add a retry step to the FOAS release process

Author: andreaangiolillo

.github/workflows/release-spec.yml

@@ -184,10 +184,20 @@ jobs:
         branch: ${{ inputs.branch }}
         foascli_version: ${{ inputs.foascli_version }}
 
-  failure-handler: 
-    name: Failure Handler
+  retry-handler:
     needs: [ release, release-postman, release-changelog]
-    if: ${{ always() && contains(needs.*.result, 'failure') }}
+    if: ${{ always() && contains(needs.*.result, 'failure') && fromJSON(github.run_attempt) < 3}}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - env:
+          GH_REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.api_bot_pat }}
+        run: gh workflow run retry-handler.yml -F run_id=${{ github.run_id }}
+
+  failure-handler:
+    name: Failure Handler
+    needs: [retry-handler, release, release-postman, release-changelog]
+    if: ${{ always() && contains(needs.*.result, 'failure') && needs.retry-handler.result == 'skipped' }}
     uses: ./.github/workflows/failure-handler.yml
     with:
       env: ${{ inputs.env }}

.github/workflows/retry-handler.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+name: 'Retry failures in the Release Workflow'
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      run_id:
+        required: true
+        description: 'The ID of the workflow to rerun.'
+        type: string
+jobs:
+  rerun:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: rerun ${{ inputs.run_id }}
+        env:
+          GH_REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+          GH_DEBUG: api
+        run: |
+          gh run watch ${{ inputs.run_id }} > /dev/null 2>&1
+          gh run rerun ${{ inputs.run_id }} --failed