How To Update a Web Application In Azure and Keep The App Up the whole time

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I've a MVC Web Application (.NET) and from time to time I need to upgrade the deployment version on Azure, the problem is that I have customers that are using the Web-App and I cant take it down and make it unavailable.

There is a way to deploy a new version of my Web-App and still be up and running the all time? (during the deployment process)

One way that I could think of it to do it is by deploy the the Web-App to somewhere other than my current deployment and "play" with the DNS record on my external domain.

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Zain Rizvi On BEST ANSWER

Use deployment slots.

Azure Web Apps let you create staging slots for your site. They're effectively independent sites that you can deploy your test/staging bits to.

Then when you have the staging site ready you can push a button and make it your public production site.

See here for more details: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-staged-publishing/