VIP Swaps and Persistence - when exactly do VIPs get recycled?

Question

How is VIP swapping + CNAMEs better than IP swapping + A records?

As a continuation from the above - I\'m very close to reverting back to A records due to issues I\'

Answer 1

VIP swap will not change your public IP. That's saying, if you have your application deployed in prod slot with 1.1.1.1 and beta deployed in staging slot with 2.2.2.2, your public IP will still be 1.1.1.1 even after VIP swapped. This is because VIP is just a load balance configuration changing. You can safely delete your original application from the staging slot (originally prod slot) which the IP was 2.2.2.2.

Hope this helps,