Azure DevOps Self-Hosted Agents

Boost Your CI/CD Performance with Full Control and Speed

Azure DevOps Self-Hosted Agents are computing resources that you manage and maintain to run build and deployment jobs in Azure Pipelines. Instead of relying on Microsoft-hosted agents—shared resources with usage limits—you can provision your own dedicated machines, ensuring faster, more predictable performance.

What Are Self-Hosted Agents?

In Azure DevOps, agents are the workers that execute your CI/CD tasks—like compiling code, running tests, or deploying to production.

A self-hosted agent is an agent you set up and run on your own infrastructure, giving you:

• Complete control over environment configuration

• Faster build times (no cold starts or shared queues)

• More flexibility with installed tools and software versions

• Lower cost at scale, especially with high usage

They can run on Linux, Windows, or macOS, and are ideal for businesses that require secure environments or need specific performance profiles.

How It Works

1. Install the agent on your own VM or bare-metal server

2. Register it with your Azure DevOps organization

3. Assign it to a specific agent pool

4. Use it in your pipelines just like a Microsoft-hosted agent—only now it's fully under your control

Agents connect securely to Azure DevOps services using OAuth tokens or PATs, and jobs are pulled and executed as they're queued.

Why Use BuildServers.xyz for Azure DevOps Agents?

At BuildServers.xyz, we specialize in performance-optimized dedicated servers in Europe, pre-configured or ready for custom self-hosted agent deployments. We offer:

• Dedicated Bare Metal: No hypervisor overhead, all resources are yours

• Fast Deploy: Ready-to-go Linux builds with Azure DevOps agent preinstalled

• Simple admin interface to connect to your DevOps organization

• CI/CD Optimized: Ideal for high-frequency pipelines, large repositories, and Docker workloads

• EU-Based Hosting: Fast access for European teams, GDPR-compliant environments

Included Features

Feature	Self-Hosted Agent	Microsoft-Hosted Agent
Fully customizable tools	Yes	No
Persistent environment	Yes	No
High concurrency	Yes	Limited
Control over security patching	Yes	No
Dedicated compute	Yes	No

Ideal For

• Dev teams needing faster CI/CD cycles

• Enterprises with strict security requirements

• Companies deploying custom or legacy software

• Scaleups that need fixed pricing for workloads

• Development teams using Docker

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