Azure Functions run inside App Services, and they inherit many of the features available for App Services. One of these is deployment slots.
Deployment slots enable you to deploy different versions of your function app with different URLs.
You can imagine a deployment slot as like another function app contained in the main function app. You create a slot with a name and you can use it to deploy your functions in the same way that you would with a normal function app. In the following screenshot, you can see a slot called beta:
If the function app is called testingazfunctions, its URL will be http://testingazfunctions.azurewebsites.net. If you create a slot called beta, its URL will be http://testingazfunctions-beta.azurewebsites.net.
The process of deploying a function app inside a slot is completely identical to what was seen previously. After you...