Manage Azure Pipeline agents and pools

This module explores the differences between Microsoft-hosted and self-hosted agents, details job types, and configures agent pools. Understand typical situations to use agent pools and how to manage their security.

Administrator

Developer

DevOps Engineer

Security Engineer

Security Operations Analyst

Service Adoption Specialist

Solution Architect

Technology Manager

Azure

GitHub

Artifacts

Boards

Cloud Services

Azure DevOps

Pipelines

Repos

Test Plans

Module Objectives

By the end of this module, you'll be able to:

Choose between Microsoft-hosted and self-hosted agents
Install and configure Azure Pipelines Agents
Configure agent pools
Make the agents and pools secure
Explore communication to deploy using Azure Pipelines

Units

Introduction min
Choose between Microsoft-hosted versus self-hosted agents min
Explore job types min
Introduction to agent pools min
Explore predefined agent pool min
Understand typical situations for agent pools min
Communicate with Azure Pipelines min
Communicate to deploy to target servers min
Examine other considerations min
Describe security of agent pools min
Configure agent pools and understanding pipeline styles min
Knowledge check min
Summary min

Prerequisites

None