[Question] Azure Pipeline Agent support for Apple M1

[WardenGnaw]

Is there going to be a published release for the Azure Pipeline Agent on the Apple M1 (published as osx-arm64) or is it expected to use the osx-x64 package on the machines running as emulated.

This would require the project to be updated to use .NET 6.0

[luigisaggese]

Any news on this topic?

[anatolybolshakov]

Hi @WardenGnaw @luigisaggese currently we have no plans to officially support it in the near time.

[sabareeshkkanan]

Well apple is rapidly moving all their products to apple silicon , it will be great if we can bump up priority on this.

[metaine]

Can we use our own Apple Silicon machine as self-hosted agent?

[nekrich]

Is there any news on this topic?
We have to put arch -arm64 everywhere in our scripts when we want to make builds on Apple Silicon.

[anatolybolshakov]

Hi everyone, we have a plans to gradually migrate to the latest Net core version, but it could require some time - will keep you posted.

[CRamsan]

Is there any update on the timeline for arm64 support?

[BastianZim]

With the release of the new MacBook Pros, I was wondering if there are any news here? @anatolybolshakov

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[BastianZim]

Not stale

[mohammad-yousuf]

Is there any update on the timeline for arm64 support?

any updates?

[fcancela]

Hey! Could you please provide some updates?

Based on this comment I understand there is a WA:

Is there any news on this topic? We have to put arch -arm64 everywhere in our scripts when we want to make builds on Apple Silicon.

Is it possible to build with arm64 architecture from the current existing macOS VMs available?

Thanks in advance!

[theolivenbaum]

Anything Microsoft?

[simonbuerger]

Unclear why they didn't post or mention this issue from there, but #3922 seems to be in progress to address this? Linked PR #3879

[alanwilter]

Any news please?

[neoswallow]

I have not tried it myself but they did release a pre-release version.
3.214.0
It was just that 1 release but it looks like the work is in progress.

[Soap-141]

Any updates?

[neoswallow]

I've been using arm64 version of the agent (v3.2xx.x) on self-hosted agent since, I think 3.218.0, and it's been working fine.
Previously, I've use arch -arm64 to improve build performance where I can.
With arm64 agent, it builds even faster than before with arch -arm64

The only thing that doesn't seem to work is updating agent version.
So for now, I just create a new agent with new version if I want to update it.

[kirill-ivlev]

Hi @WardenGnaw,
Now we support macOS arm-64, you can download it from the release page.
Please let us know if you have any additional questions.

[badsyntax]

@kirill-ivlev thanks! i've installed it on our mac mini build agent and it works without problems.

will you be updating the following documentation at some point?:

• README
• Release notes "After Download:" instructions for macos
• Download arm64 for macos from "New Agent" screen in devops

[luciansmith]

I had been following this because I thought an M1 virtual machine would eventually be added to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/agents/hosted?view=azure-devops&tabs=yaml However, that page doesn't say anything about arm64 vs. not; is there a way to get one architecture over another from the YML file? Should I request a VM for arm64 on a different issue tracker? Thank you!

[alecglen]

@luciansmith did you figure out how to reference it in yml?

[luciansmith]

@alecglen I have not! Thus far I am still building for M1 architectures by hand, which is not ideal.

[aykevl]

@luciansmith you do this in GitHub Actions by specifying runs-on: macos-14. That version is the new M1 runner. From here (though it's not explained clearly in that link). I don't know whether Azure DevOps supports the new M1 runner.

[luciansmith]

Looks like Azure doesn't have macos-14 yet; it's still at 'macOS-13', cf https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/agents/hosted?view=azure-devops&tabs=yaml Thanks for the pointer!