How to run pipeline builds/tests that require specific hardware?

Question

It is sometimes very useful to perform build and test tasks on self-provisioned machines in a cloud. Is it possible with pipelines?

In Jenkins for example I would host my agent on AWS machine of my choice. How to address the same problem with pipelines when more computation power is needed (e.g. Tesla GPUs)?

Philip Hodder · Accepted Answer

Hi Illia,

Pipelines does not provide the ability to customise the instance type the build is placed on.

The only way to set up something similar would be to have a script in Pipelines which would then spin up the instance type you want, and then clone your repository onto the instance and run tests there.

Thanks,

Phil