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Workflow and action limitations

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Workflow and action limitations

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- [Instructor] Now that we know a bit more about workflows and actions let's discuss some of their limitations. One repository can contain many different workflows but only 20 workflows can be running at the same time. Concurrent jobs are also limited but this is based on your GitHub plan. For free plans, we're limited to 20 concurrent jobs. This limit increases with the pro team and enterprise plans. On top of that, jobs are limited to six hours of runtime. That's almost a full day's work for your workflow to get done, whatever it needs to do. If your workflows use actions that interact with the GitHub API, you'll be limited to making 1000 API requests per hour. Also actions can't trigger other workflows. This keeps from creating potentially infinite loops with actions triggering workflows, that trigger actions that trigger workflows and well, you get the idea. To keep log files from taking up too much space, action logs are…

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