Azure Pipelines Self-Hosted Agents & NuGet Publish Demo

This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

Master the complete process of building, packaging, and publishing applications using Azure DevOps Pipelines and self-hosted build agents.

Modern enterprise software engineering demands secure, high-performance continuous integration workflows. Relying solely on default hosted infrastructure often limits network connectivity, performance optimization, and custom software setups. This hands-on, practical course provides step-by-step guidance to set up self-hosted agent infrastructure, secure permissions, automate builds, run tests, create NuGet packages, and publish them to private Azure Artifacts feeds.

Who This Course Is For

• DevOps Engineers looking to deploy and manage self-hosted agent infrastructure.

• Build Engineers wanting to optimize build speeds and custom toolchains.

• Software Developers aiming to automate .NET package publishing to private feeds.

• System Administrators managing secure Azure DevOps environments.

• Cloud Architects designing continuous integration pipelines.

What You Will Learn

• Provision and register Linux/Windows self-hosted agents in Azure DevOps

• Secure build pools and configure pipeline execution permissions

• Structure end-to-end YAML build, test, and package pipelines

• Automate versioning and compile source code using custom build agents

• Configure Azure Artifacts feeds with correct access controls

• Create and publish versioned NuGet packages via YAML pipelines

• Troubleshoot agent connectivity, capability matching, and feed errors

• Maintain and auto-update custom build agent pools for enterprise teams

Requirements

• Basic understanding of CI/CD concepts and Azure DevOps interface.

• Familiarity with command-line interfaces (Bash or PowerShell).

• An active Azure DevOps account (free tier works perfectly).

Final Project

You will build an end-to-end continuous integration system. You will provision a self-hosted agent host, configure permissions, construct a complete YAML pipeline to restore, compile, test, version, and pack a .NET application, and automatically push the generated NuGet package to a secured Azure Artifacts feed.