{"id":732,"date":"2020-01-27T16:43:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T15:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daxvisionerp.com\/?p=732"},"modified":"2025-10-27T08:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T08:12:13","slug":"build-agent-without-the-need-for-a-virtual-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daxvisionerp.com\/home\/build-agent-without-the-need-for-a-virtual-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Build agent without the need for a Virtual Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I wrote about building your code on Azure DevOps earlier: <br><a href=\"http:\/\/daxvisionerp.com\/dynamics-365-fo-build-from-release-folder\/\">http:\/\/daxvisionerp.com\/dynamics-365-fo-build-from-release-folder\/<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The build agent is running a virtual machine. You need to start the VM to be able to start a build. This has some costs most of the time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Something is happening related to this topic. Soon you will not need to use a virtual machine as a build machine. See this post from Microsoft:  <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/dynamics365-release-plan\/2019wave2\/finance-operations-crossapp-capabilities\/build-automation-hosted-azure-devops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/dynamics365-release-plan\/2019wave2\/finance-operations-crossapp-capabilities\/build-automation-hosted-azure-devops<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joris de Gruyter from Microsoft also mentioned this in one of his presentations that I saw:<br>&#8220;A new build experience is coming, without VM<br> Simple and standard .NET<br> No VM required<br> Free on Azure DevOps hosted agents, with minutes per month&#8221;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will let you know when I know more, or feel free to leave a comment if you have more information about this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-post_tag wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/daxvisionerp.com\/home\/tag\/build\/\" rel=\"tag\">Build<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote about building your code on Azure DevOps earlier: http:\/\/daxvisionerp.com\/dynamics-365-fo-build-from-release-folder\/ The build agent is running a virtual machine. You need to start the VM to be able to start a build. This has some costs most of the time. Something is happening related to this topic. Soon you will not need to use a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"1080","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dynamics-365fo","tag-build"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daxvisionerp.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daxvisionerp.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daxvisionerp.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daxvisionerp.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daxvisionerp.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daxvisionerp.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1385,"href":"https:\/\/daxvisionerp.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/1385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daxvisionerp.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daxvisionerp.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daxvisionerp.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}