[enhancement]: make runlocal available to the public

[LukeOrdelmans]

Describe your feature request here

I dislike having to push all my intermediate pipeline changes to the server (every push is gated by a mandatory review).
I want to be able to test my pipeline locally and push only when my changes are ready for review.

see: https://github.com/Microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent/blob/d504d4/docs/preview/yamlgettingstarted-runlocal.md

[ivanduplenskikh]

Hi @LukeOrdelmans thanks for reporting! We are working on more prioritized issues at the moment, but will get back to this one soon.

[ChristopherHX]

Wasn't this abandoned and removed in #1706?

That old code didn't seem to use the current syntax of ado pipelines as I remember from reading the old source code in 2022.

I made a fake vsts / ado pipelines client and server that talks to this agent to trigger a local run.

Also made a vscode extension for offline template development and validation.
So all in all replaces everything of the abandoned feature except that it is not currently able to download the task zip's from your server via credentials.

Feel free to ask me if you have any questions, I'm not affiliated with microsoft or this repository.

It's much smaller and faster than installing Azure Devops Server, yes this is possible and is working on windows without third party tools.

[LukeOrdelmans]

That sounds great, going to check it out! Thx @ChristopherHX

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[Frulfump]

Still relevant to be able to easily run agent locally for easy testing even if the specific code in the issue was removed at some point.