README.md

Visual Studio Team Services Build and Release Agent

Overview

The cross platform build and release agent for Team Services and Team Foundation Server 2015 and beyond. This will be replacing/combining the existing closed source windows build agent and the existing xplat agent

Supported on Windows, OSX, Ubuntu and Red Hat. Written for the .NET Core CLR as one code base in C#.

Status

The preview is feature complete on all platforms and supported for production use.

The current preview is more feature complete than the node agent bringing Auto Update, Cancellation, Run as a svc on OSX and Linux, and Gated support.

	Build & Test	Preview	Release
OSX		RC v2.102.0	Next Drop
Ubuntu		RC v2.102.0	Next Drop
RedHat		RC v2.102.0	Next Drop
Windows		Preview 4 v2.102.0	July

Preview Support

This agent can be used for the VSTS service and it replaces the node agent for TFS2015 On-Prem.

Scenario	OSX/Unix	Windows	Comment
VSTS Git	Yes	Yes
VSTS TfsVC	Yes	Yes
TFS2015 Git	Yes	No	Win use agent with 2015
TFS2015 TfsVC	Yes	No	Win use agent with 2015

Get Started

First, add the build account to the proper roles

Read Here

Next, get the agent configured

Start Windows

Start OSX

Start Ubuntu

Start RedHat

Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting tips are located here

Contribute

For developers that want to contribute, read here on how to build and test.