Content by eric van wijk (4)

Eric van Wijk announces the general availability of GitHub-hosted agents in Azure Pipelines, including pay-as-you-go billing and new macOS SKUs, plus preview Linux and Windows SKUs. The post explains available VM images and rates, how to enable the new agent pool, how to target it from YAML, and how to monitor minutes and costs.

Eric van Wijk announces a public preview of arm64 macOS build agents for Azure Pipelines, letting teams run CI workloads natively on Apple Silicon with pay-as-you-go, per-minute billing. The post shows how to enable the GitHub-hosted Agents pool, select new macOS/Xcode image labels, and monitor usage in pool analytics and Azure Cost Management.

Eric van Wijk introduces the new Azure DevOps service connection, which lets pipelines authenticate to Azure DevOps using a Microsoft Entra workload identity (service principal or managed identity) instead of PATs or build session tokens, and shows where and how to use it across YAML, tasks, and scripts.

Eric van Wijk announces the deprecation and planned retirement of the Azure DevOps OIDC issuer used by Workload Identity Federation (WIF) service connections, and explains what Azure Pipelines users need to do to move existing connections to the Microsoft Entra issuer before the 2027 deadline.