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

Eddie's answer was close to what I needed, the only thing that was missing was a way to specify the deployment slot:

stopapp.ps1

param($websiteName, $websiteSlot)
$website = Get-AzureWebsite -Name $websiteName -Slot $websiteSlot
Stop-AzureWebsite -Name $websiteName -Slot $websiteSlot

startapp.ps1

param($websiteName, $websiteSlot)
$website = Get-AzureWebsite -Name $websiteName -Slot $websiteSlot
Start-AzureWebsite -Name $websiteName -Slot $websiteSlot

And then on your Azure PowerShell task Script Arguments could be something like this:

-websiteName "{mywebsite}" -websiteSlot "{mydeploymentslot}"