kevintcoughlin / azure-pipelines-image-generation

Azure Pipelines VM image generation for Microsoft-hosted CI/CD

Azure Pipelines VM images for Microsoft-hosted CI/CD

Overview

This repo contains scripts that generate the Linux and Windows virtual machine images used by Azure Pipelines for Microsoft-hosted CI/CD. The macOS image scripts are not kept here, but its contents are documented here. The images are generated using Packer.

Following image updates

Image updates are deployed every 3 weeks. You can follow releases here. Consider enabling Watch -> Releases only at the top of the page.

Notifications

Subscribe to this RSS feed to be notified of upcoming image changes and other important messages. General Azure Pipelines service health is found here.

Image contents

• macOS 10.13
• macOS 10.14
• Ubuntu 16.04
• VS 2019 + Windows Server 2019
• VS 2017 + Windows Server 2016
• VS 2015 + Windows Server 2012 R2
• Windows Container 1803

Issues and requests

If you have an issue or request for an image, please create an issue in this repo. To add or change a tool yourself, see Contributing.

Image generation help

Linux

• How to use Packer to create Linux VM images in Azure

Windows

• Instructions to build Windows images
• How to use Packer to create Windows VM images in Azure

Contributing

This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution. For details, visit https://cla.microsoft.com.

When you submit a pull request, a CLA-bot will automatically determine whether you need to provide a CLA and decorate the PR appropriately (e.g., label, comment). Simply follow the instructions provided by the bot. You will only need to do this once across all repos using our CLA.

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact [email protected] with any additional questions or comments.

Legal Notices

Microsoft and any contributors grant you a license to the Microsoft documentation and other content in this repository under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License, see the LICENSE file, and grant you a license to any code in the repository under the MIT License, see the LICENSE-CODE file.

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