Custom build agent

A VSTS build agent is any Windows machine which can run VSTS agent as service. The minimum OS requirement for installing VSTS agent are available at https://github.com/Microsoft/vsts-agent/blob/master/docs/start/envwin.md. In this section, we will build a custom build agent using Windows Server 2016 with containers that has the capability of building ASP.NET core applications and Docker for Windows.

Create Azure VM for build agent: Apply the following steps to create and configure the build agent:

  1. The first step is to create a WS 2016 machine. We can use the Ibiza portal (portal.azure.com) or PowerShell to create the machine. Login to https://portal.azure.com
  2.  Click New and then click on Compute.
  3.  Search for image: Windows ...

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