TFS 2018 Create agent pool programatically

Question

Is it possible to create an Agent Pool in TFS 2018 programatically, preferably via PowerShell? I cannot find anything like that in REST API.

Answer 1

The REST API of TFS has an undocumented portion that deals with app pools: _apis/distributedtask/pools. For example:

Get agent pools (Request method: Get):

http://[TFS URL]/_apis/distributedtask/pools?api-version=x.x-preview.1`

api-version should match your TFS version

You could open up Chrome/IE Network inspector and found that the API calls for create agent pool action. How to do this please refer:

• Analyzing your webpage's network traffic
• Using Windows Internet Explorer Developer Tools Network Capture

Finally, you just need to call REST API through PowerShell, take a look at this answer.