I am working on Azure DevOps YAML pipeline, I am not sure whether we can use single agents through out the pipeline. I have multiple jobs/stages - Build, Deploy, Post-Deploy, and want to assing that to a single agent, because it is consuming same artifacts. Is there a way to assign a single agents through the pipeline.
Thanks in advance.
Yes, you can define a specific agent on YAML.
E.g: pool: name: AgentPoolName demands: - agent.name -equals AgentName
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/process/demands?view=azure-devops&tabs=yaml
I dont want the agent to do checkout operation everytime for new job
Using the checkout keyword to configure or suppress this behavior.
steps:
- checkout: none
You can refer to this official document for details.
If you cannot use a specif agent as @Savio Moreira suggested the only option that I found is to duplicate some steps.
In my case have a similar pipeline with 2 stage:
The Build part is trigger only when a PR is created using a condition in the YAML Stage and Enable Branch policies. The Publish part is trigger only when there is merge into master.
It's a bit annoying that some steps need to be duplicated but the execution is unique, and with the same pipeline I can execute validation before merge and then create the artifact once the code is into master.
The checkout option doesn't help since in my case each stage is executed on a completely different container.