The first time you try to run the personal Azure DevOps pipeline, you might recieve the following message.
No hosted parallelism has been purchased or granted. To request a free parallelism grant, please fill out the following form https://aka.ms/azpipelines-parallelism-request
To request for free Microsoft-hosted agents, please fill the form.
Please choose the response as Private to the below question asked in the form.
Are you requesting a parallelism increase for Public or Private projects?
You will receive email confirming the approval of the request in 2-3 business days. Ensure that the project visibility is set to private for the projects created inside your organization.
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Why is a free parallelism request necessary?
In Release 183, Microsoft stated the below reasons for adding restrictions on free pipeline use as follows:
Over the past few months, the situation has gotten substantially worse, with a high percentage of new public projects in Azure DevOps being used for crypto mining and other activities we classify as abusive. In addition to taking an increasing amount of energy from the team, this puts our hosted agent pools under stress and degrades the experience of all our users – both open-source and paid.
Hence, a free parallelism request is necessary to execute the pipelines during the workshop. In case, you already have a working pipeline in your personal Azure DevOps organization, you may skip filling the above request form.