Clarification on Distributing Microsoft-Hosted Parallel Jobs in Azure DevOps

Question

We are currently working with Azure DevOps and have been allocated 7 Microsoft-hosted parallel jobs for our organization. Is it possible to distribute these 7 parallel jobs across multiple projects in our Azure DevOps organization, ensuring that each project can use one parallel job at a time without interfering with other projects?

If this distribution is feasible, what are the necessary steps to configure this setup? Detailed instructions or guidance on implementing this configuration effectively would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi Azure Devops Brainvire

Yes, Microsoft-hosted parallel jobs in Azure DevOps are shared at the organization level, not scoped to individual projects. These jobs are allocated at the organization level, not per project, and are shared across all projects by default.

However, Azure DevOps doesn’t provide a built-in way to reserve parallel jobs per project.

This applies only if you move to self-hosted agents. You can create dedicated agent pools for each project.

Additional References:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/licensing/concurrent-jobs?view=azure-devops&tabs=ms-hosted

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