Azure DevOps Pipelines .NET Agent docker image

Docker image which can be used to build Azure Pipelines .NET workloads running on i.e. in a AKS cluster. Based on Ubuntu 26.04.

SDKs

• .NET 8
• .NET 9
• .NET 10
• .NET 11 (RC1 / go-live)
• Node 18
• Node 20
• Node 22
• Node 24 (fnm default)
• pnpm

Azure

• Azure CLI
• Azure Developer CLI (azd)
• Bicep (standalone binary and az bicep)

Containers and Kubernetes

• Buildah (container tagging and publishing)
• Skopeo
• Crane (container archive publishing)
• regctl
• kubectl

SQL

• sqlcmd and the Microsoft SQL ODBC driver
• sqlpackage

Tools

• Playwright browser system dependencies (jobs install their own browsers)
• Azurite
• Renovate
• Cake
• dpi
• dotnet-outdated

Coding agents

• Cursor CLI (cursor-agent)
• Claude Code with the official .NET plugin set

Environment variables

• AZP_TOKEN - Azure DevOps PAT used to register agent
• AZP_URL - Azure DevOps org base url
• AZP_POOL - Azure Pipelines Agent pool to register with.
• AZP_ARGS- Optional variable for arguments to the build agent i.e. --once.