Azure DevOps change Agent Pool

Question

I'm trying to set a build pipeline to run on a specific agent pool. At the moment it insists on working on the "Azure Pipelines" pool:

However I'm not able to change the build pipeline's agent pool (at least I'm not sure how).

My YAML looks like this:

trigger:

- master

pool:
  vmImage: 'ubuntu-latest'

variables:
  buildConfiguration: 'Release'

steps:
- task: NuGetCommand@2
  inputs:
    command: 'restore'
    restoreSolution: '**/*.sln'
    feedsToUse: 'select'

- script: dotnet build --configuration $(buildConfiguration)
  displayName: 'dotnet build $(buildConfiguration)'

- task: DotNetCoreCLI@2
  displayName: 'Pack the package'
  inputs:
    command: 'pack'
    configuration: 'Release'
    packagesToPack: 'NugetComponents/**/*.csproj'
    nobuild: true

- task: PublishBuildArtifacts@1
  inputs:
    PathtoPublish: '$(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)'
    ArtifactName: 'drop'
    publishLocation: 'Container'

I'm not sure if I need to change anything here. I can't find anything in the interface for configuring which agent bool a pipeline should use?

Did you look at the YAML documentation? It explains how to specify agent pools in great detail. — Daniel Mann
Hi Prime By Design, is there any update for this issue? Feel free to let me know if my answer helps to explain your issue. Just a reminder of this. — Kevin Lu-MSFT
@DanielMann yea I looked at the docs but it wasn't clear that I needed to specify a name property. — K-Dawg
It would be really helpful if people would give me some reasoning as to any downvotes so that I can improve my question. — K-Dawg

Kevin Lu-MSFT Kevin Lu-MSFT · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-07T06:30:30

According to this doc about agent pools, the “Azure Pipelines” pool contains various Windows, Linux , and macOS images.

The Azure Pipelines hosted pool replaces the previous hosted pools that had names that mapped to the corresponding images. Any jobs you had in the previous hosted pools are automatically redirected to the correct image in the new Azure Pipelines hosted pool.

So when you specify Microsoft-hosted agent ( e.g. Ubuntu-latest) , the pipeline will run on the “Azure Pipelines” pool.

Update

You can specify the target agent pool in the “pool” field.

This is the format of Yaml:

pool:
  name: string  
  demands: string 
  vmImage: string

For Microsoft-hosted agents: you can directly specify “vmImage”.

For example:

pool:
  vmImage: 'ubuntu-16.04'

For Self-hosted agents: you can specify agent pool name.

For example:

pool:
  name: Agent Pool name

Here is a doc about specifying agent pool in Yaml.

Azure DevOps change Agent Pool

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