Azure DevOps Hosted Agents - Add Tool (PS Module) to agent

Question

I am wondering if there is an easy way to incorporate an extra tool to one of the default Microsoft hosted agent pools (specifically VS2017). Basically, I want to add some of th

Answer 1

For PowerShell modules, you can just use Install-Module in an inline script (or at the start of your existing scripts) to ensure they're installed. That, of course, assumes the modules are in the PowerShell Gallery.

Worst case, just put the modules you need in source control and publish them as an artifact along with everything else so you can load them up.