Explore predefined agent pool
Azure Pipelines provides a pre-defined agent pool-named Azure Pipelines with Microsoft-hosted agents.
It will often be an easy way to run jobs without configuring build infrastructure.
The following virtual machine images are provided by default:
- Windows Server 2022 with Visual Studio 2022.
- Windows Server 2019 with Visual Studio 2019.
- Ubuntu 20.04.
- Ubuntu 18.04.
- macOS 11 Big Sur.
- macOS X Catalina 10.15.
By default, all contributors in a project are members of the User role on each hosted pool.
It allows every contributor to the author and runs build and release pipelines using a Microsoft-hosted pool.
Pools are used to run jobs. Learn about specifying pools for jobs.
Note
See Microsoft-hosted agents for the most up-to-date list of Agent Pool Images. Also, the complete list of software installed on these machines.