Configuring Deployment Settings

There are several deployment settings related to your App Service instance that you should be aware of. Deployment settings allow you to upload your code or manage source control and deployment slots.

Deployment slots are logical segmentations of your application that can pertain to different environments and versions. Let’s say you have an application that is running in production mode (meaning it’s live and operational), and you want to work on some new code updates to introduce new features to the next version of your application. Typically, you would work on this in a test environment and deploy it accordingly to the production environment, once you felt that adequate testing had been performed before deploying anything to production.

Well, deployment slots provide a solution that allows you to deploy code to these slots to test the different functions and features of your applications, as well as code updates. You can run your...