Additional terminate conditions
This is very useful and works as accepted.
It should also be useful to add
Startup conditions
Time in the queue before to start a new instance: [ ] minutes.
(Meaning do not start a new vm if the time in queue is less then this time.)
Use case:
We use now a pool with 8 VM's starting from an image.
Because we completely delete the VM's from Azure if they get shut down, the startup of a VM takes about 5 to 10 minutes.
It often happens when a list of small builds (build time about 2/3 min) gets queued, extra Agents get fired up reacting to the queue, but by the time the extra Agents have started the queue already empty. (short build time against long start-up time.)
In our case setting this parameter to 10 minutes will solve this behavior.
njefsky
commented
3 years ago
Startup parameter
We have now an option:
Use case:
We use now a pool with 8 VM's starting from an image. Because we completely delete the VM's from Azure if they get shut down, the startup of a VM takes about 5 to 10 minutes.
It often happens when a list of small builds (build time about 2/3 min) gets queued, extra Agents get fired up reacting to the queue, but by the time the extra Agents have started the queue already empty. (short build time against long start-up time.)
In our case setting this parameter to 10 minutes will solve this behavior.