Introduction

Blue Agent is self-hosted Azure Pipelines agent in Kubernetes, cheap to run, secure, auto-scaled and easy to deploy.

Features

• 🏗️ Allow to build containers inside the agent using BuildKit.
• 💪 Performances can be customized depending of the engineering needs, which goes far beyond the Microsoft-hosted agent.
• 📵 Can run air-gapped (no internet access).
• 🔄 Agent register and restart itself.
• 🔧 Packaged with common automation tools (jq, PowerShell Core, Python 3.12, rsync, …).
• 🖥️ Available with Azure Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows Server

Best practices for safety

• 💰 Cheap to run (dynamic provisioning of agents, can scale from 0 to 100+ in few seconds with KEDA).
• 📦 SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) is packaged with each container image.
• 🔄 System updates are applied every day.
• 🔒 Build authenticity can be cryptographically verified with Cosign and GPG.
• 🪶 Slim container images by design.

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