Azure Web App deploy: Web Deploy cannot modify the file on the destination because it is locked by an external process

Question

I am using the \"Azure Web App Deployment\" build step in VSTS to publish an ASP.NET Core API to an Azure Web App:

Occasionally, this step breaks with the f

Answer 1

I was struggling with the same locking issue.
There are now a new Tasks (in Preview) that you can add for starting and stopping the App Service:

Add a stop task before deployment and a start task after the deployment.

This did the trick for me.