You have an existing build pipeline in Azure Pipelines. You need to use incremental builds without purging the environment between pipeline executions. What should you use?

The correct answer is A. a self-hosted agent. When you run a pipeline on a self-hosted agent, by default, none of the subdirectories are cleaned in between two consecutive runs. As a result, you can do incremental builds and deployments, provided that tasks are implemented to make use of that. You can override this behavior

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Question

You have an existing build pipeline in Azure Pipelines. You need to use incremental builds without purging the environment between pipeline executions. What should you use?

Options

Aa self-hosted agent
BMicrosoft-hosted parallel jobs
Ca File Transform task

How the community answered

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A
80% (16)
B
15% (3)
C
5% (1)

Explanation

When you run a pipeline on a self-hosted agent, by default, none of the subdirectories are cleaned in between two consecutive runs. As a result, you can do incremental builds and deployments, provided that tasks are implemented to make use of that. You can override this behavior using the workspace setting on the job. Incorrect Answers: B: The workspace clean options are applicable only for self-hosted agents. When using Microsoft- hosted agents, job are always run on a new agent. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/process/phases

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#self-hosted agent#incremental builds#Azure Pipelines#build environment

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