Build CI/CD pipelines, manage repositories, track work items —all within a fully managed Azure DevOps environment!

The Azure DevOps Playground gives you a dedicated organization and project to explore pipelines, boards, repos, and more. No setup required—jump straight into the DevOps experience.

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What Is the Azure DevOps Playground?

Think of the Azure DevOps Playground as a pre-configured DevOps environment where you get your own Azure DevOps organization and project. Experiment with pipelines, agent pools, repositories, and work tracking—all within a safe, isolated session.

Azure DevOps Playground – Features

• Session Isolation:
  • Each session gets a dedicated DevOps project scoped exclusively to your account.
  • Your resources are isolated from other learners' sessions.
• Risk-Free Experimentation:
  • Work freely within your project—create pipelines, configure agent pools, set up repos.
  • Changes are scoped to your session and do not affect shared infrastructure.
• Safe & Secure Space:
  • Sessions are continuously monitored for unusual activity.
  • Project administrator membership is enforced automatically—unauthorized users are removed without warning.

Playground Limits & Restrictions

Agent Pools

• Max Agent Pools: 2 (per session)
  • Agent pools are tracked by ownership—only pools created under your session identity are counted.
  • System pools (Azure Pipelines, Default) are excluded from the count.
  • Only self-hosted agent pools are permitted; Microsoft-hosted agents are not available in this environment.
    • TIP: Spin up a VM in the allotted playground and register it as your agent.
• Session Block: If the agent pool count exceeds 2, lab access is temporarily blocked. Contact support if this occurs unexpectedly.

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Project Administrators

• Only the following identities are permitted as Project Administrators:
  • Session user
  • Session service principal
• Any other user added to the Project Administrators group is automatically removed.
• This enforcement is continuous—removals happen silently during session monitoring.

While exploring, please keep these restrictions in mind—they govern what you can do within your Azure DevOps Playground session.