Question

Your team runs an Azure DevOps YAML pipeline with 12 stages that can run in parallel. You have configured a self-hosted agent pool named 'BuildFarm' with 4 registered agents, all online and idle. When you queue the pipeline, only 4 jobs run simultaneously and the rest queue, but your organization has purchased 10 self-hosted parallel jobs. Management wants maximum throughput without changing pipeline YAML. What is the correct action?

Accepted Answer

Register additional self-hosted agents in the 'BuildFarm' pool so the number of online agents matches the desired concurrency, up to the 10 purchased parallel jobs.

Answer

Increase the 'maxParallel' value in a matrix strategy in the pipeline YAML to 10.

Answer

Convert the pool to Microsoft-hosted agents, which automatically scale to the number of purchased parallel jobs.

Answer

Purchase additional Microsoft-hosted parallel jobs, since self-hosted parallel jobs cannot be used with self-hosted agents.