An App Service deployment slot option that, after each deployment and once warm-up finishes, swaps that slot into production without manual action. Linux web apps and Web App for Containers can't use it.
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Terms in this definition
- App Service
Managed PaaS hosting for web apps and Web App for Containers, run in a sandbox without OS access. Deployment slots and autoscale start at the Standard tier.
- Model deployment
Inside a resource, each deployment is a named copy of a Foundry model with its own TPM quota and deployment type. Requests identify the model by this deployment name.
- LAMP
Short for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (Perl and Python also fill the P): a widely used open-source stack for web applications whose database is frequently Azure Database for MySQL.
- Web App for Containers
The App Service offering for running containers, with Easy Auth, autoscaling and continuous deployment from ACR built in.