Build Self-Service Pipeline to Deploy Self-Hosted Environment Agents on Azure Workloads — The Token Phase

Gijs Reijn
10 min readApr 15, 2024

What constantly still struck me, is the fact that when you deploy a self-hosted Windows environment agent from Azure DevOps Services, it only supports Personal Access Tokens (PAT).

Figure 1 — Authentication options for Windows Agent

Yeah, you can probably relate to it, and it is still unfortunately the only option available in 2024.

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Gijs Reijn

Azure DevOps | Azure | Automation | PowerShell Just doing my thing and writing about it