✨ Add max execution time for Workflows (#755)

* 🎉 basic setup and execution stopping

* 🚧 soft timeout for own process executions

* 🚧 add hard timeout for subprocesses

* 🚧 add soft timeout to main thread

* 🔧 set default timeout to 5 mins --> 500s

* 💡 adding documentation to configs

* 🚧 deactivate timeout by default

* 🚧 add logic of max execution timeout

* ⚡ adding timeout to settings in frontend and server

* 🎨 improve naming

* 💡 fix change in config docs

* ✔️ fixing compilation issue

* 🎨 add format for new config variables

* 👌 type cast before checking equality

* ⚡ Improve error message if NodeType is not known

* 🐳 Tag also rpi latest image

* 🐛 Fix Postgres issue with Node.js 14 #776

* 🚧 add toggle to activate workflow timeout

* 💄 improving UX of setting a timeout and its duration

Co-authored-by: Jan Oberhauser <jan.oberhauser@gmail.com>

packages/cli/config/index.ts

@@ -159,6 +159,30 @@ const config = convict({
 			env: 'EXECUTIONS_PROCESS'
 		},
 
+		// A Workflow times out and gets canceled after this time (seconds).
+		// If the workflow is executed in the main process a soft timeout
+		// is executed (takes effect after the current node finishes).
+		// If a workflow is running in its own process is a soft timeout
+		// tried first, before killing the process after waiting for an
+		// additional fifth of the given timeout duration.
+		//
+		// To deactivate timeout set it to -1
+		//
+		// Timeout is currently not activated by default which will change
+		// in a future version.
+		timeout: {
+			doc: 'Max run time (seconds) before stopping the workflow execution',
+			format: Number,
+			default: -1,
+			env: 'EXECUTIONS_TIMEOUT'
+		},
+		maxTimeout: {
+			doc: 'Max execution time (seconds) that can be set for a workflow individually',
+			format: Number,
+			default: 3600,
+			env: 'EXECUTIONS_TIMEOUT_MAX'
+		},
+
 		// If a workflow executes all the data gets saved by default. This
 		// could be a problem when a workflow gets executed a lot and processes
 		// a lot of data. To not exceed the database's capacity it is possible to