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VSTS Agent (visualstudio.com)

These instructions cover installing and configuring an agent to connect to you Visual Studio Team Services (cloud) account.

Account and Roles

Create a PAT token. Step by Step here

Add the user you created the PAT token for to both:

  1. Agent Pool Administrators (allows to register)
  2. Agent Pool Service Accounts (allows listening to build queue)

Agent Roles

TIPS: You can add to roles for a specific pool or select "All Pools" on the left and grant for all pools. This allows the account owner to delegate build administration globally or for specific pools. More here The PAT token is only used to listen to the message queue for a build job When a build is run, it will generate an OAuth token for the scoped identity selected on the general tab of the build definition. That token is short lived and will be used to access resource in VSTS

Install

By Installing the agent, you are accepting the terms on the Team Explorer Everywhere EULA

Running this from the command line (terminal) will download prereqs, install/update the agent bits globally and create an agent in your current directory. Make a new directory for your agent

Tips Directory should be created under the users home directory (~).
Prefer running the agent as the logged in user and creating under ~ will minimize permission issues.

Copy and paste the curl line. If your linux box does not have curl follow this answer

From a terminal:

mkdir myagent
cd my agent

curl -skSL http://aka.ms/xplatagent | bash

To install preview version (usually master), use:

curl -skSL http://aka.ms/previewxplat | bash

Your output should look similar to this

If you have issues with this, fully realized zips are available.

Go to the releases section on github and download the linux or OSX (Darwin) package.

Configure on first run

TIPS: ensure it's account level url (no collection) for VSTS, ensure you answer false (default) for force basic if the agent isn't configured (.agent file exists), on first run, it will configure.

$ ./run.sh
Enter alternate username > somerandomusername
Enter alternate password > (copy paste PAT token here)
Enter agent name (enter sets yourmac.local)  > 
Enter agent pool name (enter sets default)  > 
Enter poolName(enter sets default) > 
Enter serverUrl > https://(YourAccount).visualstudio.com
...
Enter force basic (enter is false)  > 
Config saved
Waiting ...

An agent is now running interactively. ctrl-c will exit the agent.

Update Existing Agent

Run the same command used to install from the agent root directory (package.json will be in that folder)

Before updating stop the agent (ctrl-c if interactive, if service see run as a service)

From a terminal:

curl -skSL http://aka.ms/xplatagent | bash

Your output should look similar to this

Run as a Service

Running interactively is good for testing and evaluation. But, in production the agent should be run as a service to ensure the agent survives reboots.

How to run as a service