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Reputation: 23

Use Running Azure Container Instance in Azure Pipeline

I'm currently using resource: container in azure pipeline to pull my custom image tools from ACR, and use this image to create a container than can run several CLI commands on my pipeline.

Pulling this custom image tools takes so much time, roughly around 5mins and I want to avoid that as it is considered as a wasted time and a blockage since I do debugging most of the time.

Question: Is it possible to create an Azure Container Instance that constantly run my custom image tools then call this container inside my pipeline to run some cli commands?

I'm having a hard time finding documentation, so I'm not really sure if it is possible.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 930

Answers (1)

Bright Ran-MSFT
Bright Ran-MSFT

Reputation: 14180

You can try to set up a self-hosted agent in your custom Docker image, and when running the container on ACI, it will install the agent and connect it to your Azure DevOps.

Then, you can use this self-hosted agent to run your pipeline job which needs to run the CLI commands. Since the self-hosted agent is hosted in the container, the job runs on the self-hosted agent will run in the container.

About how to configure set up self-hosted agent in Docker image, you can reference the document "Run a self-hosted agent in Docker".

Upvotes: 1

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