Is it possible to perform configuration changes to an Azure Web App without the application restarting?

Question

Currently when pushing updates via our CI/CD pipeline to the Azure Web Apps the nodes are being forcefully rebooted by azure once the configuration changes are completed.

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Answer 1

As Fabrizio Accatino said, when you touch the web.config, IIS automatically restarts the app domain.

If you do this to avoid downtime, you could add a deployment slot and publish your newest project to it. When you want to publish your project to production environment,you can swap them.For more details, refer to this article.