Azure App Service Deployment Slots








Just a quick one today: Deployment Slots are one way to manage your Azure App Service deployments, giving you the option to do a "hot swap" of a live production application with little to no downtime.

At the same time they allow you to easily manage your app versioning, by making sure that you always have a "Last Known Good" version of your app, a few clicks away from being rolled back on production when something goes wrong in your release.

You can set up VSTS to configure your Staging Slot before deploying to it, as mentioned in a previous post of mine.

Here is a quick overview of the common Deployment Slots usage:


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