Downloading agents using the GitHub release API

In a big move to embrace open source, Microsoft transitioned a lot of its key projects to GitHub. By developing products in an open source and contributing back to the open source communities, Microsoft is starting to change its negative public perception. This has resulted in some very surprising partnerships and an overall growth story for Microsoft, which is reflected in its stock price going up significantly over the last couple of years.

The azure-pipelines-agent and azure-pipelines-tasks projects are also hosted on GitHub. How does this benefit you? You can see all of the product's code, see the quality and architecture of the patterns used, have visibility of the product roadmap, contribute to the product's development, and engage with the product team by raising feedback and issues through GitHub. Both experimental and long-term supported versions of the agents are released on GitHub. Based on the pace at which the product is evolving...