diff --git a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.IntegrationTesting/Deployers/ApplicationDeployer.cs b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.IntegrationTesting/Deployers/ApplicationDeployer.cs
index a9212b0d54..999b9c788c 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.IntegrationTesting/Deployers/ApplicationDeployer.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.IntegrationTesting/Deployers/ApplicationDeployer.cs
@@ -127,11 +127,27 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.IntegrationTesting
 
                 hostProcess.StartAndCaptureOutAndErrToLogger("dotnet-publish", Logger);
 
-                hostProcess.WaitForExit();
-
-                if (hostProcess.ExitCode != 0)
+                // A timeout is passed to Process.WaitForExit() for two reasons:
+                // 
+                // 1. When process output is read asynchronously, WaitForExit() without a timeout blocks until child processes
+                //    are killed, which can cause hangs due to MSBuild NodeReuse child processes started by dotnet.exe.
+                //    With a timeout, WaitForExit() returns when the parent process is killed and ignores child processes.
+                //    https://stackoverflow.com/a/37983587/102052
+                // 
+                // 2. If "dotnet publish" does hang indefinitely for some reason, tests should fail fast with an error message.
+                const int timeoutMinutes = 5;
+                if (hostProcess.WaitForExit(milliseconds: timeoutMinutes * 60 * 1000))
                 {
-                    var message = $"{DotnetCommandName} publish exited with exit code : {hostProcess.ExitCode}";
+                    if (hostProcess.ExitCode != 0)
+                    {
+                        var message = $"{DotnetCommandName} publish exited with exit code : {hostProcess.ExitCode}";
+                        Logger.LogError(message);
+                        throw new Exception(message);
+                    }
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    var message = $"{DotnetCommandName} publish failed to exit after {timeoutMinutes} minutes";
                     Logger.LogError(message);
                     throw new Exception(message);
                 }