Automated Builds in single server Azure devops server

Question

If i'm deploy azure devops server on single machine, why extensive use of automated build, test, or release likely will cause performance issues ?

thanks!

Answer 1

A single-server deployment consists of a single machine and it likely will cause performance issues because of the following reason:

• Limited size of RAM. For evaluation or personal use - 2 GB, scale up to 250 users - 4 GB and scale up to 500 users - 8 GB.

You can refer to Requirements for Azure DevOps on-premises

Answer 2

To be honest, it really depends on the server and its specs. If it had RAID SSDs, 64GB memory and an AMD 32 core Ryzen Threadripper, I'd not be worried too much :o).

But it you're running multiple parallel build jobs on a server it will have to handle massive I/O on the drives and CPU may spike, many compilers know very well how to make use of all the CPU cores you hand to them.