Azure DevOps agents - comparison

September 26, 2023

In continuation to the previous articles about Azure devops agents , today we will look into the comparison between the different agent types

Comparison:

Following diagram provides a quick summary of the self-hosted vs Microsoft-hosted agents

The pointers given can be used in the selection of the suitable agent type

Summary:

There are multiple factors to be considered while selecting one of these agent types for your project , however a general suggestion would be to try using Microsoft hosted agents to begin with and then expand with self-hoted agent when required

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