Managed identities and Azure App Service staging slots

If you’re using an Azure App Service on a tier that offers staging slots (standard and above) then you might want to consider what happens when you swap a slot. If you’ve configured a slot then you’ll want to swap deployments at a minimum between a production and pre-production environment. Microsoft cover in depth what happens when you commence a swap, but what they don’t cover is what happens to any managed identities that you have setup for the app service....

January 29, 2020 · 2 min