How to Create self hosted agent pool in Azure Devops

February 14, 2023

In this Article, we’ll walkthrough how to Create Self hosted agent pool in Azure Devops

Prerequisites:

• Azure Devops User Account
• Devops Project created under your organization

Implementation Steps:

1. Generate Personal Access Token (PAT)
2. Create Agent pool
3. Add Agent
4. Check Agent Status

Step 1: Generate Personal Access Token (PAT)

1. Sign in to your Azure DevOps organization (https://dev.azure.com/{your_organization}).
2. From your home page, open your user settings, and then select Personal access tokens.
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   Step 2: Create agent pool

4. Go to Desired Project
5. Select project settings gear button located in the left-bottom
6. Click Agent Pools > Add pool
7. Select Self-hosted Pool type
8. Fill Agent Pool Name
9. Enable Grant access permission to all pipelines
10. Click Create

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Step 2: Add agent

1. Select newly created Agent Pool
2. Navigate to Agents tab > click New Agent
3. Follow the Instructions outlined below

   • Click Download button, to downlad the agent
   • Create a directory using below command
   • D:> md your-desired-directory-name
   • D:> cd your-desired-directory-name
   • D:\your-desired-directory-nam> Add-Type -AssemblyName System.IO.Compression.FileSystem ; [System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::ExtractToDirectory(“\vsts-agent-win-x64-2.217.2.zip", "$PWD")
   • Configure the Agent usinf below command
   • PS C:\agent> .\config.cmd
   • PS C:\agent> .\run.cmd

Step 3: Check Agent Status