Can I install Azure Devops Build Agent on Azure Virtual Machine?

Question

Trying to move self-hosted TFS to Azure DevOps.

We have a bunch of custom software installed on our build machine as well as custom build procedures, we do Windows app builds and create an MSI file.

I am pretty sure this is possible but want to make sure before telling upper management - can we create an Azure Virtual Machine and install the Build Agent software (and all our custom software), and do our app builds from there?

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Answer 1

Yes. As long as the machine can establish a network route to dev.azure.com, it'll work fine.

If you need your VMs to have access to on-prem resources or be joined to your internal domain, you'll have to establish a VPN connection.