DevOps / SRE / Platform · 18.08.2026, 18:40 UTC
Apple Silicon and Xcode 27 images available in pay-as-you-go (preview)
| Schweregrad | info |
|---|---|
| Kategorie | DevOps / SRE / Platform |
| Quelle | Azure DevOps Blog ↗ |
| Veröffentlicht | 18.08.2026 UTC |
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Apple developers can now build and test their applications natively on Apple Silicon in Azure Pipelines. New arm64 macOS agents are available in public preview through the pay-as-you-go GitHub-hosted Agents pool. Starting with Apple Silicon, Azure Pipelines is bringing over some of the agent sizes already available in GitHub Actions. The preview includes the following macOS images:
Operating system Hardware specification VM image labels Pool
macOS 26 Standard macos-26-arm64, xcode-27 GitHub-hosted Agents
macOS 26 XLarge macos-26-arm64-xl, xcode-27-xlarge GitHub-hosted Agents
Running workloads directly on Apple Silicon avoids the overhead and compatibility limitations of emulating arm64 on Intel hardware. It also lets teams validate applications against the same architecture used by current Apple devices and development machines. Pay-as-you-go pricing The new agents use pay-as-you-go pricing with the rate tied to the size of the agent. This means they are charged per minute and no longer on the one-size-fits-all parallelism model. See Azure DevOps pricing for current rates. Enable GitHub-hosted agents in billing settings To use the Apple Silicon agents, first enable GitHub-hosted agents in the billing settings for your Azure DevOps organization.
Enabling this option provisions the new GitHub-hosted Agents pool used for pay-as-you-go agents. Use the Apple Silicon images Once the pool is provisioned, target the standard macos-26-arm64 image in your YAML pipeline: pool: name: 'GitHub-hosted Agents' vmImage: 'macos-26-arm64' steps: - bash: | echo Hello from macOS Tahoe …