startubuntu.md

Ubuntu Agent

Step 1: System Requirements

NOTE: Prefer Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. We configure as a service using systemd and it's not in 14.04. More here on configuring as a service

Read here to ensure system packages are installed

Step 2: Download from Releases

Download the agent from github releases

Step 3: Create the agent

~/$ mkdir myagent && cd myagent
~/myagent$ tar xzf ~/Downloads/vsts-agent-ubuntu.14.04-x64-2.102.0.tar.gz

Step 4: Configure

~/myagent$ ./config.sh

Config VSTS Details

Config On-Prem Details

NOTE: running as a service details here

Step 5: Optionally run the agent interactively

~/myagent$ ./run.sh

That's It!