Setup nightly app restart for SBMTD server

[thekaveman]

This is done through the Azure Dev Ops UI, under Pipelines > Releases.

Look at MST for examples.

Maybe in the future we can figure out how to encode this into a YAML file or similar?

[thekaveman]

@angela-tran I'm not seeing the Releases option under Pipelines for the SBMTD org? I do see it in MST. Could this be a permissions thing?

I'll note that I am an admin of the DevOps project in MST:

But not in SBMTD:

[angela-tran]

Apparently it's a setting under Pipelines to enable/disable this feature

I actually think this might be the point where it makes sense to go ahead and define this as a YAML pipeline, using MST's release pipeline as a reference. The YAML pipeline would have 3 tasks that look something like this (we'd need to variablize it of course):

- task: AzureAppServiceManage@0
  displayName: 'Restart Azure App Service: mst-courtesy-cards-eligibility-server-test'
  inputs:
    azureSubscription: deployer
    Action: 'Restart Azure App Service'
    WebAppName: 'mst-courtesy-cards-eligibility-server-test'

There is more documentation on AzureAppServiceManage here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/reference/azure-app-service-manage-v0?view=azure-pipelines

Do you think this makes sense to do now, or should we just focus on getting it set up and working as a release pipeline?

[thekaveman]

I actually think this might be the point where it makes sense to go ahead and define this as a YAML pipeline

That sounds good to me 👍