Installing a pipeline agent

So far, we've only performed manual tasks when working with Azure DevOps, but let's get into some of the tasks that Azure DevOps can do for us, namely, building and deploying our Business Central application.

Before we can automate these tasks though, we need to install an Azure Pipeline Agent. The agent is responsible for executing build and release pipelines in an environment. This recipe will show you how to install an Azure Pipeline Agent on a local Windows machine.

Getting ready

In order to perform this recipe, you must complete all the previous recipes in this chapter. For this recipe, we'll assume you are going to install the agent on your local Windows machine, so you need...