sitereactor
commented
4 years ago Hey, sorry that this feature request has been left without an answer for so long. Unfortunately this is not something we are able to do in our current Umbraco Cloud setup, but good news is that we are in the process of modernizing our infrastructure to enable capabilities such as deployment slots. It's something that has been on my own wishlist for years, so keen to see it added - hopefully this calendar year.
We'll keep this as a feature request and update once its planned as part of the Now/Next/Later stages of the Roadmap.
paulsterling
Amalie-Wowern
We're currently launching a new website on Umbraco Cloud, but I noticed there is no way to pre-stage the live environment in the sense I can keep my current website running, prepare the "new" live environment (push from stage to live, do final checkups, make sure things are really all A-OK) then swap the current live out with my new live environment.
Are there any plans to make this available? It would really make releasing a lot more hassle free. Users of the website can now suddenly be presented with an Umbraco installation/upgrade screen, and/or mess with the website as you are trying to get into a presentable state.
Just to clarify upfront: Using the current Stage environment does not solve this particular issue, only that of the content preparation (to a certain extend)! Releasing a website, which requires Apppool recycles, Umbraco Deploy imports, potential DB upgrades and what not cannot be prepared on a Stage environment and flawlessly pushed to Live as-is.