Azure Pipelines agents operated by Microsoft, each job getting a new VM outside your network. Reaching private resources therefore needs added connectivity or self-hosted agents instead.
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Terms in this definition
- Azure Pipelines
CI/CD service within Azure DevOps that deploys applications and infrastructure as code, with environments, approvals and checks.
- Job
A sequence of steps executed together on one agent or runner, or on the server for agentless work. While running, each occupies one of your parallel jobs.
Related terms
- Agent demands
Exists or equals conditions in a pipeline's pool that Pipelines checks against self-hosted agents' capabilities to choose one. With Microsoft-hosted agents, an image is selected instead.