diff --git a/azure-pipelines.yml b/azure-pipelines.yml
index d034e3b9ba..5809084f03 100644
--- a/azure-pipelines.yml
+++ b/azure-pipelines.yml
@@ -23,11 +23,11 @@ jobs:
         vmImage: 'ubuntu-20.04'
         CPU: amd64
       # regularly breaks, refs bug #17325
-      Linux_i386:
-        # on 'ubuntu-16.04' (not supported anymore anyways) it errored with:
-        # g++-multilib : Depends: gcc-multilib (>= 4:5.3.1-1ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed
-        vmImage: 'ubuntu-18.04'
-        CPU: i386
+#       Linux_i386:
+#         # on 'ubuntu-16.04' (not supported anymore anyways) it errored with:
+#         # g++-multilib : Depends: gcc-multilib (>= 4:5.3.1-1ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed
+#         vmImage: 'ubuntu-18.04'
+#         CPU: i386
       OSX_amd64:
         vmImage: 'macOS-11'
         CPU: amd64