This week I have been playing to automatically provision a VSTS Agent on a Linux Machine. One thing i noticed is that in separate VSTS accounts the latest agent is not always the agent your account supports.
There may be little risk but this PowerShell script, that I use in an Inline PowerShell script in a Task during my provisioning release, helps to get the URL for the account your are targeting. Convenient and checked.
The script requires a few parameters;
- PersonalAccesToken – A PAT for the VSTS account you are targeting
- VSTSAccount – The https://account.visualstudio.com url
- AgentType – The REST API calls for the Agent Type requested, this could be one of three values; “linux-x64”, “windows-x64” or “osx-x64”
The script updates a variable, AgentDownloadUrl, that can be used in the pipeline.
View/Download the script here: https://github.com/JasperGilhuis/VSTS-RestAPI/blob/master/Get-LatestAgentDownload.ps1
Jasper Gilhuis 