DevOps, VMware

Creating an Azure DevOps hosted agent image for VMware

I’ve recently came across a news from Microsoft stating that they will remove the free grant for hosted agents: I love hosted agents as they include all the tools, I can possibly use, for me to build any possible software. For new comers, who want to have an Azure DevOps organization that can leverage hosted agents, which include concurrent pipelines, having this limitation is a bummer. Going through the channels to get that feature unblocked, can be overwhelming and a lot of people move on. This leaves you 1 solution if you don’t want to go through all of that: hosting the agents (at least 2, because concurrency means 2 agents/workers!) yourself. Thankfully, the hosted agent process for building the…

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