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Setup Azure DevOps Self Hosted Agent On-Premise & Troubleshooting Guidelines - Part 2

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VinodSoni
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Oct 16, 2023
Introduction: Azure Pipelines provides a powerful and flexible platform for continuous integration and deployment. While Microsoft offers hosted agents for executing pipeline tasks, there are scena...
Published Oct 16, 2023
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JasonPowellSkillable
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Sep 26, 2024

Hello, we are deploying on-prem ADO pipeline agents and having troubles finding the sweet spot of the number of agents we have running as services on VMs in our environment. If we run pipelines with 2 agents it takes all the resources on the server VM. If we bump the agents used up to 4 in the agent pool, it takes significantly longer to run our pipelines. Is there a guide to how many agents per server, resource consumption, etc.?