Manage Azure Pipeline agents and pools

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  • 13 Units
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This module explores the differences between Microsoft-hosted and self-hosted agents, details job types, and configures agent pools. Understand typical situations to use agent pools and how to manage their security.

Learning objectives

By the end of this module, you're able to:

  • Choose between Microsoft-hosted and self-hosted agents.

  • Install and configure Azure Pipelines Agents.

  • Configure agent pools.

  • Make the agents and pools secure.

  • Explore communication to deploy using Azure Pipelines.

Prerequisites

None

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