According to https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/vsts-docs/blob/master/docs/pipelines/agents/hosted.md the virtual machine size of the Microsoft-Hosted Agent is:
What does that mean? Which size is used? Standard_DS2_v2 or Standard_DS3_v2? Can I decide which one I want to use?
Kind regards,
Peter
There isn’t the way to force build/release to use DS3_v2 vm agent, it usually try to get DS2v2 sku VM, but sometimes gets a DS3V2 based on availability. We recommend you to setup private agent if hosted agent cannot meet your requirement.
The current documentation says that it always uses Standard_DS2_V2 for the Microsoft hosted agents.
Alternatively one can use self-hosted agents or scale set agents, to get more control over what hardware the pipelines run on.
Scale set agents are partially managed by Azure Pipelines, which makes them less work than self-hosted agents, while still providing control over the virtual machines that are used. At the same time they still require quite some work / introduce quite some complexity, so that switching from Microsoft hosted agents to scale set agents should only be done if it is worth it for your organization.
