I have Build pipeline and release pipeline in Azure DevOps which works fine. I want to start the website using power shell script which is in repo ,only after post-deployment approvals in release pipeline. Do some initial Manual checks and start the website
Release Pipeline
Task 1: stop website
Task 2: deploy website
Do initial Manual checks before starting the website
Task 3: Start website using post-deployment approvals
I am afraid it is impossible to invoke powershell scripts from post-deployment approvals.
However, if your website is deployed to azure resources. You can run the powershell scripts by Invoking Azure Function from post-deployment gates. You will need to create a Azure function to start the website using powershell script. See document Create a PowerShell function in Azure using Visual Studio Code.
There is another workaround using Manual intervention task instead of post-deployment approvals.
You can add an agentless job to run Manual intervention task(Notify the users to approve) after website is deployed.
And then run the power shell script to start up your website in the next job see below:
