Fail Github Actions Workflow if one job is failed (while keeping other jobs that are called after it)

Question

I have a workflow that constists of 3 jobs - "Start self-hosted EC2 runner", "Run Integration Tests" and "Stop self-hosted EC2 runner". A Github Action that I used as a source for my implementation can be found at this link. In practice when Tests are failing and its job looks "red", workflow still looks "green" and I need to fix that (= make it look "red"). However, it is mandatory that "Stop self-hosted EC2 runner" job must execute even if "Run Integration test" job fails, so I can not fail the workflow from within "Run Integration Tests" job.

I suspect I can add yet another job dependent on all three, which then checks the status of all the Jobs and fail the workflow. How can I do that or otherwise make workflow "red" while always executing "Start.." and "Stop..." jobs regardless of tests success or failure?

Answer 1

The cause of workflow not failing is that 2nd job has to have continue-on-error: true attribute.

I ended up adding another job at the end like so:

// Last job:

  fail-on-job2:
    # Without this step workflow remains "green" if job2 does fail.
    name: Job2 Status -> Workflow Status
    needs:
      - job1
      - job2
      - job3
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    if: always()
    steps:
      - uses: technote-space/workflow-conclusion-action@v2
      - name: Check Job Status status and fail if they are red
        if: env.WORKFLOW_CONCLUSION == 'failure'
        run: exit 1