AppService access restrictions and access from Release Pipelines

Question

As part of my deployment I would like to call some endpoint in my application to smoke test it. But we are using Access Restrictions and calls from Azure Devops Release Pipeline are rejected. Is there a way around this?

Answer 1

Right after asking question I noticed there is new option in Preview in Access Restrictions page in Azure portal.

With this rule Azure Devops will be able to reach application endpoints.

Or using Powershell

Add-AzWebAppAccessRestrictionRule
  -ResourceGroupName "resourcegroup"
  -WebAppName "webapi"
  -Priority 65000
  -ServiceTag Azurecloud
  -Action Allow

In future you should be able to use AzureDevOps service tag, but looks like it's not supported in Preview - Set a service tag-based rule (preview)