I’m wanting to get an Azure DevOps Pipeline (Classic) to run on a schedule against a Git Tag.  This tag is set by a CD pipeline to mark when it has been deployed in the live environment.  The scenario is that a “safe” release can be re-released on a regular schedule to ensure that it still matches what is expected (it’s an Azure ARM release, and I want to tidy up any unauthorised changes made by lazy engineers).

I cannot though find a way to achieve this.  While you can filter on tags from builds in a release pipeline, that’s not Git tags, but things manually set in ADO.  I have tried using a build pipeline first (don’t actually need one for this, but I can live with it) and using a branch filter to refs/tags/mytag, but it never seems to run.

Can anybody help out here?

​I’m wanting to get an Azure DevOps Pipeline (Classic) to run on a schedule against a Git Tag.  This tag is set by a CD pipeline to mark when it has been deployed in the live environment.  The scenario is that a “safe” release can be re-released on a regular schedule to ensure that it still matches what is expected (it’s an Azure ARM release, and I want to tidy up any unauthorised changes made by lazy engineers). I cannot though find a way to achieve this.  While you can filter on tags from builds in a release pipeline, that’s not Git tags, but things manually set in ADO.  I have tried using a build pipeline first (don’t actually need one for this, but I can live with it) and using a branch filter to refs/tags/mytag, but it never seems to run. Can anybody help out here?  Read More

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