Azure-devops: Share output from different agents running their own jobs

Question

I have a build with multiple jobs, where they depend on each other's output. But I also have multiple agents, which gives me the following issue:

If Agent1 runs Job1, Agent2 runs Job2, and Job3 requires the output from both Job1 and Job2, I can't access the files from just one agent, since they are located on different machines.

How do I make my jobs able to download the output of other agents?

I looked for the workspace on MS Docs, but it doesn't describe how to handle this scenario.

Answer 1

To add more details on top of JukkaK's answer.

I looked for the workspace on MS Docs, but it doesn't describe how to handle this scenario.

The workspace is something corresponding to agents. No sure which kind of agent do you use, but different agents have different OS instance, so the content under same path(workspace) in one agent should be quite different from that in another agent.

So workspace is not the approach for you needs.

How do I make my jobs able to download the output of other agents?

You can use Publish Artifacts+Download Artifacts combination to do what you need. See this:

You can place Publish build Artifacts task as the last task of agent job1 and job2. Then add a Download buil Artifacts as the first one of agent job3.

And make sure agent job3 depends on agent job1 and job2 like this:

In this way, the output from agent job1 and job2 can be installed in agent job3's machine for further usage. Hope it helps.