Agents and agent queues

The build definitions that you have created so far can contain agent jobs, which in turn contain tasks. These tasks are not executed within your Azure DevOps organization directly, but are executed by agents that run on VMs or in containers. In turn, agents are grouped in agent pools. There are two types of agent pools that you can work with:

• Built-in agent pools
• Self-hosted agent pools

Let's go through them one by one.

Built-in agent pools

Built-in agent pools are managed by Microsoft and are made available to you as part of the product. There are different agent pools available, depending on your needs. Pools run different versions of Windows and Visual Studio, and there are also pools available...