When using git as your source repository in an Azure pipeline, you notice that the checkout time gets longer as time goes on.

Private build agents have many advantages over the hosted agents Microsoft provide, however they also require managing.

Making REST calls to Azure DevOps usually requires a valid username and an Azure DevOps PAT Token.

I’ve been running Azure DevOps scale set agents for a while now.

In my last post in this series, I described how I created the VMimage I used for my scale set agents.

In my last post in this series, I outlined the issues I was having with VM build agents and my desire to be able to quickly spin up and tear them down.

I use Azure DevOps for work and we run our own privately hosted agents.