Set up a Raspberry Pi as Self-Hosted Agent in Azure DevOps

This article will show you how to configure your Azure DevOps to run your build pipeline via a Raspberry Pi with Linux. By default, Azure DevOps doesn’t have an option to build a Raspberry solution, so you will have to make one from scratch.

Raspberry PI configuration

Download Ubuntu image

If you start with a brand-new Raspberry Pi, you need to install the Operative System in your Micro SD. However, you have a few limitations on the kind of distribution. Azure DevOps’s agent is based on .NET Core 2.1 and supports the following distributions:

x64

• CentOS 7, 6
• Debian 9
• Fedora 30, 29
• Linux Mint 18, 17
• openSUSE 42.3 or later
• Oracle Linux 7
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, 7, 6
• SUSE Enterprise Linux 12 SP2 or later
• Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04

ARM32

• Debian 9
• Ubuntu 18.04

In this demo, I’ll use ubuntu 18.04. To download it, follow these steps:

1. Browse to the download page of the Ubuntu official website…