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Self-Hosted Agent In Azure Devops





  1. Create an agent pool
  2. Create Personal Access Token
  3. Install agent on the machine
  4. Change the agent pool of the pipeline
  5. Change in yaml file
  6. Queue the build

Create An Agent Pool




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Picture showing the Agent Pools options inside the Project settings option in the Azure Devops
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Create Personal Access Token




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Picture showing the New Token button for adding the new token
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Install The Agent On The Local Machine




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# The code will run “config.cmd”.
./config.cmd




  1. Server URL
  2. PAT
  3. Agent pool
  4. Picture showing the powershell window for executing the config.cmd file and configuring the self-hosted agent
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./run.cmd


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Change The Agent Pool Of The Pipeline




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Change In The Yaml File




# ASP.NET Core (.NET Framework)
# Build and test ASP.NET Core projects targeting the full .NET Framework.
# Add steps that publish symbols, save build artifacts, and more:
# https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/devops/pipelines/languages/dotnet-core

trigger:
- master

pool:
  name: myagentpool
  demands:
    - agent.name -equals DESKTOP-85KOUP0

variables:
  solution: '**/*.sln'
  buildPlatform: 'Any CPU'
  buildConfiguration: 'Release'

steps:
- task: NuGetToolInstaller@1

- task: VSTest@2
  inputs:
    platform: '$(buildPlatform)'
    configuration: '$(buildConfiguration)'



Queue The Build




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Posted By  -  Karan Gupta
 
Posted On  -  Wednesday, July 7, 2021

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