Agent¶

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/agents/agents?view=azure-devops&tabs=yaml%2Cbrowser

self-hosted agent¶

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/agents/docker?view=azure-devops#linux env vars:

• AZP_URL: The URL of the Azure DevOps or Azure DevOps Server instance

• AZP_TOKEN: Personal Access Token (PAT) with Agent Pools (read, manage) scope, created at AZP_URL

• AZP_AGENT_NAME: Agent name (default value: the container hostname)

• AZP_POOL: Agent pool name (default value: Default)

• AZP_WORK: Work directory (default value: _work)

aks self-hosted agent¶

https://medium.com/@muppedaanvesh/azure-devops-self-hosted-agents-on-kubernetes-part-1-aa91e7912f79

https://ghoshasish99.medium.com/azure-devops-self-hosted-agents-on-kubernetes-51685fde9a14

docker build:

• deregister the agent

How to add a build agent with Azure Container Instances¶

https://www.vivienfabing.com/azure-devops/2019/06/20/azure-pipelines-how-to-add-a-build-agent-with-azure-container-instances-part-2-custom-agent.html

azure scale-set agent¶

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/agents/scale-set-agents?view=azure-devops

firewall¶

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/server/admin/setup-secure-sockets-layer?view=azure-devops-2022

• It tries to connect to VSTS on HTTPS i.e port 443

install vsts-agent in docker¶

# vsts-agent
ARG AGENT_VER=4.248.1
RUN \
    # https://github.com/Microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent/releases
    url="https://vstsagentpackage.azureedge.net/agent/${AGENT_VER}/vsts-agent-linux-x64-${AGENT_VER}.tar.gz" && \
    mkdir /home/user/agent && \
    curl -sL $url | tar -xz -C /home/user/agent && \
    chown --recursive user:user /home/user/agent && \
    # install dependencies explicitly instead of using agent/bin/installdependencies.sh
    apt-get install --yes liblttng-ust1 libkrb5-3 libicu70 zlib1g