Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set Agents | VMSS — DevOps

Always learning
6 min readMar 3, 2024

Azure agent is a software agent that automates the management of Azure services. Azure agents can be used to manage resources such as virtual machines, storage, and networks in Azure. Azure agents can also be used to automate the deployment of applications and services in Azure.

Three types of Agent

  1. Microsoft-hosted agents
  2. Self-hosted agents
  3. Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set agents

Agents hosted and managed by Microsoft.

Agents that you configure and manage, are hosted on your VMs.

A form of self-hosted agents, using Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets, that can be auto-scaled to meet demands.

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  1. Create a Virtual Machine Scale Set
  2. Configure Agent Pools in Azure DevOps
  3. Configure the Pipeline
  4. Configure the Custom Script Extension

Creating a VMSS in the Azure portal. Select the resource group (or) create a new one, enter the name of the VMSS, and select the region where you want to run the virtual machine.

In the Orchestration mode make sure you select the Uniform mode, then select the Image and VM…

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