azure-pipelines-tasks VS azure-pipelines-agent

Compare azure-pipelines-tasks vs azure-pipelines-agent and see what are their differences.

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azure-pipelines-tasks azure-pipelines-agent
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azure-pipelines-tasks

Posts with mentions or reviews of azure-pipelines-tasks. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-17.

azure-pipelines-agent

Posts with mentions or reviews of azure-pipelines-agent. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-12.
  • GitHub Actions Are a Problem
    19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Nov 2023
    > GitHub Actions is based on Visual Studio Team Foundation Server's CI, and later Azure DevOps

    Yes and no, ADO Agent (https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent) is far more secretive and "black-box" alike.

  • GitHub Actions could be so much better
    21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Sep 2023
    Fun fact: Microsoft had a plan to provide that!

    They canned it.

    https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent/pull/2687...

  • Self-hosted Devops agent: managed ID?
    1 project | /r/AZURE | 25 May 2023
  • Can anyone help me out
    1 project | /r/AZURE | 13 Mar 2023
  • Pipeline to spawn build agent on Azure
    2 projects | /r/azuredevops | 12 Jan 2023
    You will need to download the agent (https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent/releases/latest ) and run the configure command.
  • Azure Pipelines - Node.js 16 and custom pipelines task extensions
    2 projects | dev.to | 5 Jan 2023
    A GitHub issue was opened to track support for different Node versions with custom tasks, but it remained unresolved for a long time. In October 2022 it was announced that Node.js 16 support was available.
  • AZ Modules gone on MS Hosted Devops Agents?
    1 project | /r/AZURE | 12 Dec 2022
    Even thought im in the EU datacenter, my hosted agent is version 2.213.2, which is also the latest version of the agent taht was released by MS - https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent
  • Hosting Azure DevOps Pipelines agents on GitHub Codespaces
    2 projects | dev.to | 18 Aug 2022
    { "name": "AzurePipelines", "dockerFile": "Dockerfile", // Configure tool-specific properties. "customizations": { // Configure properties specific to VS Code. "vscode": { // Add the IDs of extensions you want installed when the container is created. "extensions": [ "ms-vscode.azurecli", "ms-vscode.powershell", "hashicorp.terraform", "esbenp.prettier-vscode", "tfsec.tfsec" ] } }, // Use 'forwardPorts' to make a list of ports inside the container available locally. // "forwardPorts": [], // Use 'postStartCommand' to run commands each time the container is successfully started.. "postStartCommand": "/home/vscode/azure-pipelines/start.sh", // Comment out to connect as root instead. More info: https://aka.ms/vscode-remote/containers/non-root. "remoteUser": "vscode", // Amend Azure Pipelines agent version and arch type with 'ARCH' and 'AGENT_VERSION'. https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent/releases. "build": { "args": { "UPGRADE_PACKAGES": "true", "ARCH": "x64", "AGENT_VERSION": "2.206.1" } }, "features": { "terraform": "latest", "azure-cli": "latest", "git-lfs": "latest", "github-cli": "latest", "powershell": "latest" } }
  • Unpopular opinion: As a hobbyist and professional, I kind of prefer Azure DevOps.
    1 project | /r/devops | 30 Jul 2022
    Looks like they are working on it:https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent/issues/3922
  • ADO pipelines not rendering PS 7.2 new color escape sequences
    1 project | /r/azuredevops | 1 Mar 2022
    Thanks for sharing this. As mentioned in this GitHub issue, the build pipeline does render PS 7.2 new color escape sequences, however release pipeline does not.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing azure-pipelines-tasks and azure-pipelines-agent you can also consider the following projects:

Oryx - Build your repo automatically.

actions-runner-controller - Kubernetes controller for GitHub Actions self-hosted runners

azure-devops-extension-sample - Sample web extension for Azure DevOps

runner - The Runner for GitHub Actions :rocket:

azure-cli - Azure Command-Line Interface

github-act-runner - act as self-hosted runner

azure-devops-docs - This repo is the home of the official Azure DevOps documentation for Microsoft. GitHub Issues filed in this repository should be for problems with the documentation.

auth - A GitHub Action for authenticating to Google Cloud.

community - Public feedback discussions for: GitHub Mobile, GitHub Discussions, GitHub Codespaces, GitHub Sponsors, GitHub Issues and more!

act - Run your GitHub Actions locally 🚀

azure-devops-node-api - Azure DevOps Client for Node.js

actions-runner-