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WouterV2
Copper Contributor
Dec 13, 2023

Azure pipelines self-hosted agent retention

A client has a need to rerun certain deployment stages of an azure pipeline. The pipeline is ran on a self-hosted agent (because we need some installed CLI on that machine to build the app). The prob...
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Kidd_Ip
MVP
Jun 01, 2025

Normally, agents should allocate unique workspace folders (c:/agent/_work/1, c:/agent/_work/2, etc.), ensuring independent execution environments. Please take a look at the following:

 

  1. Check and reconfigure the agent:
./config.cmd --work c:/agent/_work

2. Force clean workspace before each run:

pool:
  name: 'Self-Hosted'
  demands: agent.os -equals Windows

steps:
  - checkout: self
    clean: true

3. Check and try manual delete Mapping.json, restart the agent and force a refresh

4. Check Auto cleanup policy:

./config.cmd --work c:/agent/_work --runAsService

 

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