Configuring TFBuild Agent, Pool, and Queues
In this recipe, you'll learn how to configure agents and create pools and queues. You'll also learn how a queue can be used across multiple Team Project Collections.
Getting ready
Scenario: At Fabrikam, the FabrikamTFVC and FabrikamGit Team Projects need their own build queues. The FabrikamTFVC Teams build process can be executed on a Windows Server. The FabrikamGit Team build process needs both Windows and OS X. The Teams want to set up three build agents on a Windows Server; one build agent on an OS X machine. The Teams want to group two Windows Agents into a Windows Pool for FabrikamTFVC Team and group one Windows and one Mac Agent into another pool for the FabrikamGit Team:
Permission: To configure a build agent, you should be in the Build Administrators Group.
The prerequisites for setting up the build agent on a Windows-based machine are as follows:
The build agent should have a supporting version of Windows. The list of supported versions is...