Azure CLI version 2.24.0 has a bug when deploying a container group (ACI) from a YAML file

[ramirezalfredo]

Description
When using Azure CLI version 2.24.0 which is the default in the latest OS image (at least in Windows), Container Group deployment from YAML file fails. Version 2.23.0 has no issues.

Area for Triage: Artifacts

Question, Bug, or Feature?: Bug

Virtual environments affected

• Ubuntu 16.04
• Ubuntu 18.04
• Ubuntu 20.04
• macOS 10.15
• macOS 11
• Windows Server 2016 R2
• Windows Server 2019

Image version

20210525.0

Expected behavior
To deploy a container group (ACI) from an Azure DevOps pipeline using the Azure CLI task with a YAML file.

Actual behavior
Azure CLI task fails with the following message:

$ az container create -g CloudMasterRG -f deploy-aci.yaml
The command failed with an unexpected error. Here is the traceback:
'ResourcesOperations' object has no attribute 'create_or_update'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/knack/cli.py", line 231, in invoke
    cmd_result = self.invocation.execute(args)
  File "/opt/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/cli/core/commands/__init__.py", line 657, in execute
    raise ex
  File "/opt/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/cli/core/commands/__init__.py", line 720, in _run_jobs_serially
    results.append(self._run_job(expanded_arg, cmd_copy))
  File "/opt/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/cli/core/commands/__init__.py", line 691, in _run_job
    result = cmd_copy(params)
  File "/opt/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/cli/core/commands/__init__.py", line 328, in __call__
    return self.handler(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/opt/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/cli/core/commands/command_operation.py", line 121, in handler
    return op(**command_args)
  File "/opt/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/cli/command_modules/container/custom.py", line 113, in create_container
    return _create_update_from_file(cmd.cli_ctx, resource_group_name, name, location, file, no_wait)
  File "/opt/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/cli/command_modules/container/custom.py", line 407, in _create_update_from_file
    resource_client.resources.create_or_update,
AttributeError: 'ResourcesOperations' object has no attribute 'create_or_update'

Repro steps

1. Upgrade to Azure CLI v2.24.0
2. Deploy a container group from YAML: az container create -g -f your-deployment.yaml

[ramirezalfredo]

One way to resolve this is to downgrade Azure CLI to version 2.23.0 in the latest OS images.

[maxim-lobanov]

Hello @ramirezalfredo , have you reported this issue to https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli team?

[ramirezalfredo]

@maxim-lobanov, Not me but there are 5 different GitHut issues with the same information:

Azure/azure-cli#18262
Azure/azure-cli#18275
Azure/azure-cli#18276
Azure/azure-cli#18290
Azure/azure-cli#18291

What I'm asking to you is to downgrade the Azure CLI version as this one is buggy. I believe that downgrading is faster than waiting for a solution from Azure CLI, I mean, this is something that you can do without waiting for others. Please find me on teams.

Thanks!

[miketimofeev]

@ramirezalfredo by the way, version 2.24.1 was released yesterday. Could you try upgrading to it and check if the issue persists?
choco upgrade azure-cli
UPD: Looks like it won't help. Azure/azure-cli#18291 (comment)

[ramirezalfredo]

@miketimofeev I did and I've got the same result. That's why I'm asking the safest option to downgrade. I also made the ACI PM aware of the issue and a bug was filed, but not sure how long would that take. Same reason I'm asking for your help. Customer changed from Windows to Ubuntu as 2.23 is not available in that image but afraid that when it does, Azure DevOps pipeline will brake again. Other options are not feasible like using Docker containers for the pipeline or switching to ARM Template as that would incur in so much job that we introduced by upgrading to a buggy version of the Azure CLI.

[miketimofeev]

@ramirezalfredo the customer can add this step for Ubuntu to stick to azure-cli 2.23.0 no matter what version is on the image. The installation takes about 40 seconds.

sudo apt-get remove azure-cli
curl -sL https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/microsoft.gpg > /dev/null
echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/azure-cli/ $(lsb_release -cs) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/azure-cli.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install azure-cli=2.23.0-1~$(lsb_release -cs)

[koenreijns]

According to the release notes of Azure CLI, a hotfix is already available:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/release-notes-azure-cli?tabs=azure-cli#june-02-2021

It would be helpful if this can be pushed to the latest images as soon as available.

[mathsnunes]

We are having problems with version 2.24.0 of azure cli too.

The problem is not the same related by @ramirezalfredo, it is related to appservice and was fixed in release 2.24.1 (release notes), so I think that upgrade az-cli would be nice.

[miketimofeev]

azure-cli 2.24.2 was released a few hours ago and it fixes the initial issue.
The new images with updated azure-cli will be deployed next week.

[miketimofeev]

The following steps are required to update to the latest version:
Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get remove azure-cli
curl -sL https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/microsoft.gpg > /dev/null
echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/azure-cli/ $(lsb_release -cs) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/azure-cli.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install azure-cli

Windows:

$azCliUrl = "https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/releases/download/azure-cli-2.24.2/azure-cli-2.24.2.msi"
$azCliName = [IO.Path]::GetFileName($azCliUrl)
Install-Binary -Url $azCliUrl -Name $azCliName -ArgumentList ("/qn", "/norestart")

macOS:

brew upgrade azure-cli

[ramirezalfredo]

@miketimofeev 2.24.2 works, how soon can that version be available in the OS images? And also, commands to update the azure cli in Ubuntu, for example, would that work in an Azure DevOps pipeline?

[miketimofeev]

@ramirezalfredo we're going to start new image deployment on Monday and it will take 3-4 days to propagate the image to all the environments. There is a chance of windows images delay since we need to wait for the new VS release.
Yes, these steps work both in GH and AzDO.

[ramirezalfredo]

Thank you very much @miketimofeev, this really helps.

[miketimofeev]

Quick update: macOS and Ubuntu images were updated. Windows image deployments will be finished on Monday.

[miketimofeev]

@ramirezalfredo all the images were updated with Azure-cli 2.24.2
I'm going to close the issue. Please feel free to contact us if you have any concerns.
Thank you!