Azure web app deployment slots and testing in production

The App Settings and Connection Strings that are marked as “Slot” are read from the Production slot and applied to the site in the Staging slot

Deployment slots solve two issues; Firstly they allow zero downtime deployments by deploying the application to a separate instance to

azure app service slot Azure deployment slots are a fantastic feature of Azure App Services They allow developers to have multiple versions of their application

azure deployment slot setting The App Settings and Connection Strings that are marked as “Slot” are read from the Production slot and applied to the site in the Staging slot