Rollout 2025-12-19

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Purpose

This issue tracks the arcade-services repository rollout. It provides the person responsible for the rollout checklist of the steps that need to be performed to rollout services in this repository.
All relevant information, including the rollout PR, issues encountered during the rollout and steps taken to resolve them should be linked or added to this issue to keep a full audit trail of changes rolled out to production.

Process

Build status check

• Check the status of the dotnet-arcade-services-daily pipeline
• Check the status of the arcade-services-official pipeline.

Rollout preparation

• Assign this issue to the FR area and to the current sprint.
• Create the rollout PR:
  • Find a commit on main that you want to rollout
  • Create a branch named rollout/YYYY-MM-DD from that commit
  • Create a PR on GitHub from the rollout/YYYY-MM-DD branch to production
  • Name the PR [Rollout] Production rollout YYYY-MM-DD
  • Link this issue in the PR description
• Merge (⚠️ DO NOT SQUASH) the prepared rollout PR
• Verify that a production => main PR was opened in arcade-services with the rollout merge commit (example). There should be no changes in the PR to any files. Do not merge the PR yet.
• Ensure the build is green and stops at the Approval phase

Rollout

• Approve the Approval stage of the rollout build.
• Monitor the rollout build for failures.
  • Note: this PCS exceptions query might help in diagnosing issues.
  • Keep track of any issues encountered during the rollout either in this issue (or in a dedicated issue linked to this one)
• Merge (⚠️ DO NOT SQUASH) the production => main PR in arcade-services
• Close this issue with closing comment describing a high-level summary of issues encountered during the rollout
• In case of rollback, uncomment the Rollback section below and follow the steps there

Useful links

• AzDO pipelines
  • arcade-services-official
  • dotnet-arcade-services-daily
• Rollout channel
• PCS exceptions
• Deployment Policy