Responsiveness and speed are important characteristics of modern web sites. But, soon as we start using some web (commonly oversized) Content Management System (CMS) we often end up with heavy web portal. High resolution background images, fancy animations, enormous JavaScript frameworks, page with hundreds of http/s server calls, tons of unused plugins (server side) and […]
As you probably know, when queuing builds (Azure DevOps pipelines) on Azure DevOps, the build is delegated to the first available build agent in agent pool. These build agents can be Microsoft Hosted (Azure DevOps) or Self-hosted. First ones are cover majority of build scenarios, they are already prefabricated and ready to use in Azure […]
Azure DevOps is amazing set of services which support all parts of Application lifecycle management. Although, built-in (Hosted) build agents are enough for almost all scenarios, there are cases when special needs are required. In this case, custom build agents covers these scenarios. In this blog post I will describe how to put on custom Linux build agent for Azure DevOps.