How to Resolve the “No Hosted Parallelism Has Been Purchased or Granted” Error in Azure DevOps Pipelines

Azure DevOps is a robust platform for continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD), enabling teams to automate the process of building, testing, and deploying applications. However, while running pipelines, you may encounter the following error:

##[error]No hosted parallelism has been purchased or granted. To request a free parallelism grant, please fill out the following form https://aka.ms/azpipelines-parallelism-request

This error is related to the use of Azure-hosted agents, which are Microsoft-provided virtual machines that run your CI/CD jobs. In this case, your pipeline is unable to execute because the Azure-hosted agents have not been assigned or purchased for your organization.

In this article, we’ll break down the meaning of the error, its causes, and how to resolve it.

What Does the Error Mean?

Azure DevOps provides Azure-hosted agents (virtual machines) to run your pipelines. These agents allow you to build, test, and deploy your code without needing to manage your own infrastructure.

However, parallelism in Azure DevOps defines the number of builds or deployments you can run concurrently using hosted…