Deployment slots for staging in Azure - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to create a deployment slot named 'staging'.

Azure

az webapp deployment slot create --name myApp --resource-group myResourceGroup --slot [1]

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Astaging

Bproduction

Ctest

Ddev

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'production' instead of 'staging' as the slot name.

The deployment slot name for staging is usually 'staging'.

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medium

Complete the code to swap the 'staging' slot with the production slot.

Azure

az webapp deployment slot swap --name myApp --resource-group myResourceGroup --slot [1]

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Astaging

Btest

Cproduction

Ddev

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Swapping the 'production' slot with itself.

Swapping the 'staging' slot with production promotes the staged version to live.

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hard

Fix the error in the command to list all deployment slots for 'myApp'.

Azure

az webapp deployment slot [1] --name myApp --resource-group myResourceGroup

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Acreate

Bshow

Clist

Ddelete

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Common Mistakes

Using 'show' which displays a single slot, not all slots.

The correct command to list deployment slots is 'list'.

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hard

Fill both blanks to set the configuration source to 'staging' slot when creating a new slot.

Azure

az webapp deployment slot create --name myApp --resource-group myResourceGroup --slot [1] --configuration-source [2]

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Astaging

Bproduction

CmyApp

Ddev

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'production' as configuration source when creating a 'staging' slot with staging config.

The new slot is named 'staging' and its configuration is copied from the 'staging' slot.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to update app settings for the 'staging' slot.

Azure

az webapp config appsettings set --name myApp --resource-group myResourceGroup --slot [1] --settings [2]=[3]

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Astaging

Bproduction

CDEBUG

DTrue

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Updating the 'production' slot by mistake.

We update the 'staging' slot's app setting 'DEBUG' to 'True'.