Elasticpools - Create

Service:

Distributed Task

API Version:

7.0

Create a new elastic pool. This will create a new TaskAgentPool at the organization level. If a project id is provided, this will create a new TaskAgentQueue in the specified project.

POST https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/_apis/distributedtask/elasticpools?poolName={poolName}&api-version=7.0

With optional parameters:

POST https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/_apis/distributedtask/elasticpools?poolName={poolName}&authorizeAllPipelines={authorizeAllPipelines}&autoProvisionProjectPools={autoProvisionProjectPools}&projectId={projectId}&api-version=7.0

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
organization	path	True	string	The name of the Azure DevOps organization.
api-version	query	True	string	Version of the API to use. This should be set to '7.0' to use this version of the api.
poolName	query	True	string	Name to use for the new TaskAgentPool
authorizeAllPipelines	query		boolean	Setting to determine if all pipelines are authorized to use this TaskAgentPool by default.
autoProvisionProjectPools	query		boolean	Setting to automatically provision TaskAgentQueues in every project for the new pool.
projectId	query		string (uuid)	Optional: If provided, a new TaskAgentQueue will be created in the specified project.

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
agentInteractiveUI	boolean	Set whether agents should be configured to run with interactive UI
azureId	string	Azure string representing to location of the resource
desiredIdle	integer (int32)	Number of agents to have ready waiting for jobs
desiredSize	integer (int32)	The desired size of the pool
maxCapacity	integer (int32)	Maximum number of nodes that will exist in the elastic pool
maxSavedNodeCount	integer (int32)	Keep nodes in the pool on failure for investigation
offlineSince	string (date-time)	Timestamp the pool was first detected to be offline
osType	OperatingSystemType	Operating system type of the nodes in the pool
poolId	integer (int32)	Id of the associated TaskAgentPool
recycleAfterEachUse	boolean	Discard node after each job completes
serviceEndpointId	string (uuid)	Id of the Service Endpoint used to connect to Azure
serviceEndpointScope	string (uuid)	Scope the Service Endpoint belongs to
sizingAttempts	integer (int32)	The number of sizing attempts executed while trying to achieve a desired size
state	ElasticPoolState	State of the pool
timeToLiveMinutes	integer (int32)	The minimum time in minutes to keep idle agents alive

Responses

Name	Type	Description
200 OK	ElasticPoolCreationResult	successful operation

Security

accessToken

Personal access token. Use any value for the user name and the token as the password.

Type: basic

Definitions

Name	Description
ElasticPool	Data and settings for an elastic pool
ElasticPoolCreationResult	Returned result from creating a new elastic pool
ElasticPoolState	State of the pool
IdentityRef
OperatingSystemType	Operating system type of the nodes in the pool
PropertiesCollection	The class represents a property bag as a collection of key-value pairs. Values of all primitive types (any type with a TypeCode != TypeCode.Object) except for DBNull are accepted. Values of type Byte[], Int32, Double, DateType and String preserve their type, other primitives are retuned as a String. Byte[] expected as base64 encoded string.
ReferenceLinks	The class to represent a collection of REST reference links.
TaskAgentPool	An organization-level grouping of agents.
TaskAgentPoolOptions	Additional pool settings and details
TaskAgentPoolReference
TaskAgentPoolType	Gets or sets the type of the pool
TaskAgentQueue	An agent queue.

ElasticPool

Object

Data and settings for an elastic pool

Name	Type	Description
agentInteractiveUI	boolean	Set whether agents should be configured to run with interactive UI
azureId	string	Azure string representing to location of the resource
desiredIdle	integer (int32)	Number of agents to have ready waiting for jobs
desiredSize	integer (int32)	The desired size of the pool
maxCapacity	integer (int32)	Maximum number of nodes that will exist in the elastic pool
maxSavedNodeCount	integer (int32)	Keep nodes in the pool on failure for investigation
offlineSince	string (date-time)	Timestamp the pool was first detected to be offline
osType	OperatingSystemType	Operating system type of the nodes in the pool
poolId	integer (int32)	Id of the associated TaskAgentPool
recycleAfterEachUse	boolean	Discard node after each job completes
serviceEndpointId	string (uuid)	Id of the Service Endpoint used to connect to Azure
serviceEndpointScope	string (uuid)	Scope the Service Endpoint belongs to
sizingAttempts	integer (int32)	The number of sizing attempts executed while trying to achieve a desired size
state	ElasticPoolState	State of the pool
timeToLiveMinutes	integer (int32)	The minimum time in minutes to keep idle agents alive

ElasticPoolCreationResult

Object

Returned result from creating a new elastic pool

Name	Type	Description
agentPool	TaskAgentPool	Created agent pool
agentQueue	TaskAgentQueue	Created agent queue
elasticPool	ElasticPool	Created elastic pool

ElasticPoolState

Enumeration

State of the pool

Value	Description
online	Online and healthy
offline
unhealthy
new

IdentityRef

Object

Name	Type	Description
_links	ReferenceLinks	This field contains zero or more interesting links about the graph subject. These links may be invoked to obtain additional relationships or more detailed information about this graph subject.
descriptor	string	The descriptor is the primary way to reference the graph subject while the system is running. This field will uniquely identify the same graph subject across both Accounts and Organizations.
directoryAlias	string	Deprecated - Can be retrieved by querying the Graph user referenced in the "self" entry of the IdentityRef "_links" dictionary
displayName	string	This is the non-unique display name of the graph subject. To change this field, you must alter its value in the source provider.
id	string
imageUrl	string	Deprecated - Available in the "avatar" entry of the IdentityRef "_links" dictionary
inactive	boolean	Deprecated - Can be retrieved by querying the Graph membership state referenced in the "membershipState" entry of the GraphUser "_links" dictionary
isAadIdentity	boolean	Deprecated - Can be inferred from the subject type of the descriptor (Descriptor.IsAadUserType/Descriptor.IsAadGroupType)
isContainer	boolean	Deprecated - Can be inferred from the subject type of the descriptor (Descriptor.IsGroupType)
isDeletedInOrigin	boolean
profileUrl	string	Deprecated - not in use in most preexisting implementations of ToIdentityRef
uniqueName	string	Deprecated - use Domain+PrincipalName instead
url	string	This url is the full route to the source resource of this graph subject.

OperatingSystemType

Enumeration

Operating system type of the nodes in the pool

Value	Description
windows
linux

PropertiesCollection

Object

The class represents a property bag as a collection of key-value pairs. Values of all primitive types (any type with a TypeCode != TypeCode.Object) except for DBNull are accepted. Values of type Byte[], Int32, Double, DateType and String preserve their type, other primitives are retuned as a String. Byte[] expected as base64 encoded string.

Name	Type	Description
count	integer (int32)	The count of properties in the collection.
item	object
keys	string[]	The set of keys in the collection.
values	string[]	The set of values in the collection.

ReferenceLinks

Object

The class to represent a collection of REST reference links.

Name	Type	Description
links	object	The readonly view of the links. Because Reference links are readonly, we only want to expose them as read only.

TaskAgentPool

Object

An organization-level grouping of agents.

Name	Type	Description
agentCloudId	integer (int32)	The ID of the associated agent cloud.
autoProvision	boolean	Whether or not a queue should be automatically provisioned for each project collection.
autoSize	boolean	Whether or not the pool should autosize itself based on the Agent Cloud Provider settings.
autoUpdate	boolean	Whether or not agents in this pool are allowed to automatically update
createdBy	IdentityRef	Creator of the pool. The creator of the pool is automatically added into the administrators group for the pool on creation.
createdOn	string (date-time)	The date/time of the pool creation.
id	integer (int32)
isHosted	boolean	Gets or sets a value indicating whether or not this pool is managed by the service.
isLegacy	boolean	Determines whether the pool is legacy.
name	string
options	TaskAgentPoolOptions	Additional pool settings and details
owner	IdentityRef	Owner or administrator of the pool.
poolType	TaskAgentPoolType	Gets or sets the type of the pool
properties	PropertiesCollection	The class represents a property bag as a collection of key-value pairs. Values of all primitive types (any type with a TypeCode != TypeCode.Object) except for DBNull are accepted. Values of type Byte[], Int32, Double, DateType and String preserve their type, other primitives are retuned as a String. Byte[] expected as base64 encoded string.
scope	string (uuid)
size	integer (int32)	Gets the current size of the pool.
targetSize	integer (int32)	Target parallelism.

TaskAgentPoolOptions

Enumeration

Additional pool settings and details

Value	Description
none
elasticPool	TaskAgentPool backed by the Elastic pool service
singleUseAgents	Set to true if agents are re-imaged after each TaskAgentJobRequest
preserveAgentOnJobFailure	Set to true if agents are held for investigation after a TaskAgentJobRequest failure

TaskAgentPoolReference

Object

Name	Type	Description
id	integer (int32)
isHosted	boolean	Gets or sets a value indicating whether or not this pool is managed by the service.
isLegacy	boolean	Determines whether the pool is legacy.
name	string
options	TaskAgentPoolOptions	Additional pool settings and details
poolType	TaskAgentPoolType	Gets or sets the type of the pool
scope	string (uuid)
size	integer (int32)	Gets the current size of the pool.

TaskAgentPoolType

Enumeration

Gets or sets the type of the pool

Value	Description
automation	A typical pool of task agents
deployment	A deployment pool

TaskAgentQueue

Object

An agent queue.

Name	Type	Description
id	integer (int32)	ID of the queue
name	string	Name of the queue
pool	TaskAgentPoolReference	Pool reference for this queue
projectId	string (uuid)	Project ID