Azure Devops Self-hosted Agent parallel jobs

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We have deployed Azure devops Self-hosted Agent in our own agentpool.

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We have also purchased 4 parallel job per agent , but when our build runs, it runs only one job at a time and other pipeline/release jobs have to wait.

How can we run 4 parallel pipeline/release jobs ?

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So what Monthly purchase 4 will do ? We want only one Agent and run 4 jobs in parallel . If we build 4 agents then no purchase of parallel job required - user888263
Monthly purchase 4 allows you to run 4 more parallel jobs. Currently, you can run 46 parallel jobs. Without Monthly purchase 4, you can only run 42 parallel jobs. This refers to the number of parallel jobs you can run. - Hugh Lin
And running a parallel job needs to occupy one agent, so the parallel jobs you can actually run are also determined by how many self-hosted agents you set. - Hugh Lin
So basically Azure Devops offers only one executor per agent . Is there a enhancement in future to have multiple executors per agent ? - user888263
Yes, open the run.cmd in the local agent folder, you can find that in the cmd window, if you want to run the next job, you need to wait for the previous run to complete, just like you can't execute two commands at the same time in a cmd.exe . So I am afraid it's not possible to have multiple executors per agent. - Hugh Lin

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How can we run 4 parallel pipeline/release jobs ?

According to your screenshot, you seem to only register one self-hosted agent, and running a parallel job will consume one agent, so if you want to run 4 jobs in parallel, you need to register at least 4 self-hosted agents.