All you get with those clients is an authentication failure. However, that changes in the moment you try to use any other client (including ). As long as you use Visual Studio everything works as expected. Not only do you get a whole Team Foundation Server for free, you also get a place to host your private Git repositories. I choose to create an Ubuntu machine in Microsoft Azure using the docker-machine command line.
Any machine you own, physical or virtual, can be a VSTS agent. Visual Studio Team Services supports hosted agents (provided by Microsoft and running Windows) and custom agents that can run Windows, Linux or Mac OS. Unable To Connect To Team Services In Visual Studio For Mac Mac.
We recently introduced support for additional hosting services such as GitHub Enterprise.
