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Azure Pipelines - Clone or Copy Hosted Agent


Is it possible to clone or copy an Azure Pipeline Hosted Agent for use as a Self-Hosted Agent? I'd like to reuse one of the Hosted Agents simply to enable me recreate and reuse all of its capabilities, saving me the headache. Is this possible and if so I'd really appreciate some help.

Thanks


Solution

  • This is not possible, but you can try to reuse what is already available here https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments

    This repository contains the source used to create the virtual environments for GitHub Actions hosted runners, as well as the VM images of Microsoft-hosted agents used for Azure Pipelines. To file bug reports, or request that tools be added/updated, please open an issue using the appropriate template. To build a VM machine from this repo's source, see the instructions.

    So you can use the same scripts which are used to create Microsoft Hosted agents.