Restart the application

Use the procedures below to restart the Sitefinity or ASP.NET Core Renderer application on any environment with zero downtime and without the need to re-deploy. The restart utilizes a similar approach as the blue-green deployment process to ensure there is no downtime for the application.
There is an option to purge the output cache and CDN cache for Sitefinity pages after the restart.

To restart the Sitefinity application, perform the following:

1. Login to Sitefinity Cloud Management Portal.
2. Navigate to Pipelines » All » Application.
3. In the list of available pipelines, select Application.Restart pipeline.
4. In the upper-right corner, click Run pipeline.
   A dialog box opens.
5. Select the environment.
6. Click Run.
7. (Optional) Select Purge all Sitefinity pages from Server and CDN cache.
   The default option is to purge the output cache and CDN cache for Sitefinity pages after the restart.

To restart the ASP.NET Core Renderer application, perform the following:

1. Login to Sitefinity Cloud Management Portal.
2. Navigate to Pipelines » All » Application.
3. In the list of available pipelines, select DotNetCoreRenderer.Restart pipeline.
4. In the upper-right corner, click Run pipeline.
   A dialog box opens.
5. Select the environment.
6. Click Run.
7. (Optional) Select Purge all static files from CDN cache (CSS, JS, etc.).
   The default option is to purge the CDN cache of all static files after the restart.