Setup continuous deployment to Azure Government using Visual Studio Team Services

This post details how to configure continuous deployment to Azure Government using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). It outlines the process of creating an Azure App Service in the Azure Government portal, generating a service principal for authentication, and configuring a service endpoint in VSTS with the Azure Resource Manager template. It also describes setting up a release definition using the Azure App Service Deployment template, selecting the CI build artifact, and configuring the 'Deploy Azure App Service' task with the appropriate Azure Government endpoint details. The post notes that VSTS is not directly available in Azure Government clouds and suggests using a private agent for stricter data restrictions.