Build Agents
You can use hosted or self-hosted agents but Synopsys recommends self-hosted build agents.
Creating a self-hosted build agent
With self-hosted agents, you have a persistent setup and you only need to download the tools one time.
Refer to Microsoft documentation for detailed information.
Hosted agents
Hosted agents are the default option in a pipeline and don't require configuration but they are ephemeral, so the Coverity on Polaris tools are installed at runtime. One disadvantage of using hosted agents is that the runtime takes longer as Coverity on Polaris tools might take a few minutes to download and this is repeated for each build. The hosted agent is destroyed following each build.
Click here for information about hosted agents.
You can configure a hosted-agent when you configure the Azure Pipeline, which is the default option.