az deployment {sub} create --template-uri... templateLink no longer available.

[Svessir]

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Describe the bug

Command Name
az deployment create

Errors:

Deployment failed. Correlation ID: 21bcc642-ce46-4888-848b-300b1ee9634b. {
  "error": {
    "code": "InvalidTemplate",
    "message": "Unable to process template language expressions for resource '/subscriptions/c88c80a7-d849-4bce-8907-ac15d5ca178b/providers/Microsoft.Resources/deployments/innResourceGroup' at line '61' and column '5'. 'The language expression property 'templateLink' doesn't exist, available properties are 'template, templateHash, parameters, mode, provisioningState'.'",
    "additionalInfo": [
      {
        "type": "TemplateViolation",
        "info": {
          "lineNumber": 61,
          "linePosition": 5,
          "path": ""
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

To Reproduce:

Steps to reproduce the behavior. Note that argument values have been redacted, as they may contain sensitive information.

• Put any pre-requisite steps here...
• az deployment create --name {} --location {} --template-uri {} --parameters {} --parameters {} --verbose

Expected Behavior

I used the --template-uri to supply the template so I expect deployment().properties.templateLink
to be available to use in the template like in earlier versions of az cli. I'm guessing the az cli is now downloading the template from the source and running it similar to a local template? az deployment sub create has the same behavior. I ran the templates with an earlier version of az cli successfully (version 2.0.69).

Environment Summary

Linux-5.3.0-46-generic-x86_64-with-debian-buster-sid
Python 3.6.5
Installer: DEB

azure-cli 2.3.1

Additional Context

[yonzhan]

add to S169

[ckittel]

I can confirm this is happening as well, it looks like the template is downloaded and then provided to /validate as if it was a local file, instead of just passing the link along in templateLink

Bascially THIS is happening with az deployment group create

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/<yoink>/resourcegroups/rg-vnet-dmz/providers/Microsoft.Resources/deployments/bb-03-vm/validate?api-version=2019-07-01 HTTP/1.1
Host: management.azure.com
User-Agent: python/3.6.6 (Windows-10-10.0.18362-SP0) msrest/0.6.13 msrest_azure/0.6.3 azure-mgmt-resource/9.0.0 Azure-SDK-For-Python AZURECLI/2.4.0 (MSI)
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept: application/json
Connection: keep-alive
Authorization: Bearer <yoink>
x-ms-client-request-id: c09aefa6-8b28-11ea-83a7-c49ded299454
CommandName: deployment group create
ParameterSetName: --name --subscription --resource-group --template-uri
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
accept-language: en-US
Content-Length: 723

{
   "properties":{
      "parameters":{

      },
      "mode":"Incremental",
      "template":{
         "$schema":"https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2015-01-01/deploymentTemplate.json#",
         "contentVersion":"1.0.0.0",
         "parameters":{

         },
         "variables":{
            "virtualMachineTemplate":"[deployment().properties.templateLink.uri]"
         },
         "resources":[

         ],
         "outputs":{
            "blahh":{
               "type":"object",
               "value":"[deployment().properties]"
            }
         }
      }
   }
}

Instead of:

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/<yoink>/resourcegroups/rg-vnet-dmz/providers/Microsoft.Resources/deployments/bb-03-vm/validate?api-version=2019-07-01 HTTP/1.1
Host: management.azure.com
User-Agent: python/3.6.6 (Windows-10-10.0.18362-SP0) msrest/0.6.13 msrest_azure/0.6.3 azure-mgmt-resource/9.0.0 Azure-SDK-For-Python AZURECLI/2.4.0 (MSI)
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept: application/json
Connection: keep-alive
Authorization: Bearer <yoink>
x-ms-client-request-id: c09aefa6-8b28-11ea-83a7-c49ded299454
CommandName: deployment group create
ParameterSetName: --name --subscription --resource-group --template-uri
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
accept-language: en-US
Content-Length: 196

{
   "properties":{
      "templateLink": {"uri": "https://ckmsftcloudshell01.blob.core.windows.net/anon/virtualMachines6.json"},
      "parameters":{

      },
      "mode":"Incremental"
   }
}

for the command az deployment group create --name bb-03-vm --subscription <yoink> --resource-group rg-vnet-dmz --template-uri 'https://ckmsftcloudshell01.blob.core.windows.net/anon/virtualMachines6.json'

[yonzhan]

add to S171

[zhoxing-ms]

Hi @Svessir, this is the same problem as #13317, and I have submitted a PR #13344 to fix it~ You can track the progress of the problem through this PR.