What's the best way to stop and start and Azure Web Site when deploying

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Hi,

I was wondering what the recommendation is to stop deployment failures to Azure Web Site due to locked files, at the moment we manually stop and start the sites but I wondering if there’s a better way to automate the process ?

Thanks

John

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Hi John,

Thanks for getting in touch! You could use Azure PowerShell steps in Octopus 3.1 to stop and start the sites automatically via Azure’s PowerShell modules.

Some information on those steps is here:

Hope that helps!

Paul

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Hi Paul,

For other reading this I have (as yet untested) :

Stop Services Step

Stop-AzureWebsiteJob –Name notifications – This is the name of our webjob
Stop-AzureWebSite –Name #{WebSite} – This is a variable in our project

Start Services Step

Start-AzureWebSite –Name #{WebSite} – This is a variable in our project
Start-AzureWebsiteJob –Name notifications – This is the name of our webjob

Thanks Paul!

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Hi John,

That should do the trick. In case it doesn’t, let us know.

Thanks,

Dalmiro

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This worked brilliantly! Thanks