Merge pull request #1391 from Aaishpra/azure

Added config and documentation for setup of self-hosted azure

Author: viniciusdc

src/maintainer/conda_forge_yml.rst

@@ -79,6 +79,24 @@ mapping for Azure-specific configuration options. For example:
       # built packages) as an Azure pipeline artifact that can be downloaded
       store_build_artifacts: False
 
+.. _self-hosted_azure-config:
+
+Below is an example configuration for setting up a self-hosted Azure agent for Linux:
+
+.. code-block:: yaml
+
+      azure:
+        settings_linux:
+          pool:
+            name: your_local_pool_name
+            demands:
+              - some_key -equals some_value
+          workspace:
+            clean: all
+          strategy:
+            maxParallel: 1
+
+
 .. _bot:
 
 bot

src/maintainer/infrastructure.rst

@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ Smithy contains maintenance code for conda-forge, which is used by the ``conda-s
 
 ``conda-smithy`` also contains the command line tool that you should use if you rerender manually from the command line (see :ref:`dev_update_rerender`).
 
+Smithy can be used beyond Conda-Forge's purposes. For example, it can be used to `set up self-hosted Azure agents <self-hosted_azure-config>`_ for non-Conda-Forge infrastructures.
+(You could also consider using `Azure virtual machine scale set agents <https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/agents/scale-set-agents?view=azure-devops>`_,
+which could be less expensive to run than permanently active agents.)
+
 
 Web services
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