Thursday, March 16, 2023

Quick tip: resolving no hosted parallelism has been purchased or granted in Azure DevOps

I recently setup a new free Azure DevOps organization but when I tried running my first pipeline - I got an exception "##[error]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".

It seems that Microsoft has made some changes in Azure Pipeline Grants for Private projects to prevent abuse as also outlined here Configure and pay for parallel jobs.


To be able to use the free Microsoft-hosted built agent, you will now need to fill in the form which was mentioned in the exception message - https://aka.ms/azpipelines-parallelism-request. Microsoft completed this request in 3 business days for me - which was in line with



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