1

Problem: To reduce maintenance of overgrowing VM's which we are currently using as build agents in VSTS.

Idea to resolve : We are thinking of using multiple docker windows containers created from indivdual windows server VM's as VSTS build agents.Therefore we want these containers to be part of VSTS Build Agent pool .

Can we create multiple windows containers which can be used as VSTS build agents from individual Windows Server VM ?

Sunny oswal
  • 21
  • 4

2 Answers2

1

Yes, it’s possible to install build agents in docker windows containers. The main steps as:

  • Set up a Docker host

  • Create a Docker image with the Visual Studio Build Agent inside

  • Run the Docker container and automatically start the agent

For details you can refer Running a VS Team Services (VSO) Build Agent in a Windows Docker Container.

Community
  • 1
  • 1
Marina Liu
  • 36,876
  • 5
  • 61
  • 74
0

I can see some windows images in the VSTS Agent Docker repo. You can try them out.

https://github.com/Microsoft/vsts-agent-docker/blob/windows/windows/servercore/10.0.14393/Dockerfile

Harshil Lodhi
  • 7,274
  • 1
  • 33
  • 42