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

This agent is feature complete on all platforms and supported for production use.

This agent replaces the node agent for OSX and Linux bringing Auto Update, Cancellation, Run as a svc on OSX and Linux, and Gated support.

The windows agent is in RC2 awaiting final validation with internal dogfooding (currently self host, building VSTS etc...)

	Build & Test	Preview	Release
OSX		RC2 v2.102.1	RC2 is candidate
Ubuntu		RC2 v2.102.1	RC2 is candidate
RedHat		RC2 v2.102.1	RC2 is candidate
Windows		RC2 v2.102.1	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	Yes	Yes
TFS2015 (onprem)	Yes	No	Windows use agent with 2015
TFS.vNext (onprem)	Yes	Yes

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.