Continuous deployment

If your application has a frequent release cycles, then continuous deployment should be considered.

The advantage of using a continuous deployment strategy provides version control to roll back to a previous release and the ability to deploy from different branches to different deployment slots in Azure.

Continuous deployments for Azure App Services are available for cloud-based source code management repositories, such as Visual Studio Team Services and GitHub. Once you have set up the desired cloud-based repository, you simply publish your changes to imitate the build and deployment plus any load tests to be carried out.

At time of writing this chapter, the only build application types were only for ASP.Net and ASP.Net Core.

Setting up continuous deployments for these types of applications are made through the Azure portal under your App Service blade as follows:

Clicking the Configure button starts a four-step wizard, the first step allows you to select either Visual...