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Security of agent pools - Azure Pipelines

An Agent that you set up and manage on you own to run jobs is a self-hosed agent.  You can use self-hosted agents in Azure Pipelines. In Azure DevOps Sever, agent pools are scoped to the entire server; so you can share the agent machines across projects and collections. When you create a pipeline, you specify which pool it uses. You create and manage agent pools from the agent pools tab in admin settings. Security of agent pools. Understanding how security works for agent pools helps you control sharing and use of agents. Roles are defined on each agent pool, and membership in these roles governs what operations you can perform on an agent pool. Role on an agent pool in organization settings Purpose Reader Members of this role can view the agent pool as well as agents. You typically use this to add operators that are responsible for monitoring the agents and their health. Service Account