What is the most efficient strategy to deploy web apps on Azure App Service? Deployment currently takes too long.

Question

I am using Azure App Service to deploy my web application, but each deployment takes about 20 to 30 minutes. Is this expected, or am I missing an optimization step? What are the best strategies to speed up deployment times? Should I use deployment slots, CI/CD pipelines, or some other tools to improve performance? Any guidance on a clean deployment flow would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi @Harshit Gupta,

The deployment time varies for each app and is based on the size of your application. Deploying too many files can slow down your deployment.

• AFAIK, deployment type will not improve any performance of the app, it is completely dependent on the size and type of the app.
• As your deployment is taking 20-30 min, definitely no that is not the expected time.

Should I use deployment slots,

If you want to run your app without any downtime, it is better to configure Deployment slots.

But these are available with a more premium pricing tier.

• As your code is already in GitHub and your GitHub is connected to Azure, you can use GitHub Actions for Continuous deployment. But make sure to ignore the unnecessary files and folder in the deployment.

You can refer this MSDoc which explains the deployment best practices.

Hope this helps.

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