With the capacity to run an extra Azure-hosted build we get another agent to run a pipeline and can run multiple pipelines at the same time. But it still won’t be parallel pipelines, because we only get one VM-less agent. This means we can run a self-hosted and azure hosted pipeline at the same time, but we cannot run two of the same type in parallel. If we want that we need to purchase extra agents.
With a private Azure DevOps project we get 2GB of Artifacts space (we’ll see that later) and one self-hosted and one Microsoft hosted agent with 1800 free minutes:
We’ll still keep the build VM, so it’s difficult to tell a customer we need to pay extra money without getting rid of its cost. Plus we’ve been doing everything with one agent until now and it’s been fine, right? So take this like extra capacity, we can divide the build between both agents and leave the MS hosted one for short builds to squeeze the 1800 free minutes as much as possible.
