I'm interested to see how others go about deploying their websites with CI. We have a growing number of Umbraco 10+ websites and it feels like we've taken a step back in our CI as the deployments are taking too long. This is because there is the file locking issue for .net core apps so we need to create the app_offline.htm to stop the site, deploy the files, then delete the app_offline.htm file to restart the site using an automated CI tool. Does anybody else have a better way of deploying using CI? We are not using DevOps. Thanks in advance Ben

We use Azure DevOps pipes that do exactly what you describe. AppOffline, deploy, remove superfluous files, AppOnline. If there are alot of log/temp/cache files the deployment can take a few minutes, but we don't watch it happen, and we deploy at times when it doesn't matter, so the process works fine for us.