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Agent pools

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- [Instructor] Agent pools. What are agent pools? The agent pools are the boundaries for all the agents that would live inside of that specific pool. So you're selecting your build or release agents, you're selecting them from a pool. That pool can contain one to n agents. So a lot of times, you could break your pools up into certain OS pools, like a Windows, a Linux, or a Mac pool. But those are the boundaries for the agents or the pools. So you have the default agent pool. You use that one when you want to use the self-hosted agents that are available. So it's built-in already. It's called the default pool. You can add your own agents to that if you'd like. I choose not to. I choose to use a different one. We also have the hosted Ubuntu pool, which, this, again, may be out of date by the time you see this. So there may be a different Ubuntu pool or a Linux pool out there. But again, those are for your Linux…

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