AZ deploy ARM template returns exceptions

Question

After weeks of successful deployment of KafkaCluster from AZ command line using ARM template, recently its not working anymore and no changes happened to ARM template or to parameter. after running the AZ deployment command it throws exceptions.

az deployment group create --resource-group XX --template-spec "/subscriptions/xxx/versions/1.0" --parameters ./environment/deploy/kafka/parameters.json --debug # to debug

After running the command, the template of Kafka is being printed with the right parameters, where at the end of the log there are some exceptions:

...
  "type": "Microsoft.Resources/templateSpecs/versions",
  "name": "1.0"
}
azure.cli.core.util.handle_exception is called with an exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/cli/core/commands/__init__.py", line 688, in _run_job
    result = cmd_copy(params)
  File "/opt/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/cli/core/commands/__init__.py", line 325, in __call__
    return self.handler(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/opt/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/cli/core/__init__.py", line 784, in default_command_handler
    return op(**command_args)
  File "/opt/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/cli/command_modules/resource/custom.py", line 511, in deploy_arm_template_at_resource_group
    no_prompt=no_prompt, template_spec=template_spec)
  File "/opt/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/cli/command_modules/resource/custom.py", line 538, in _deploy_arm_template_at_resource_group
    no_prompt=no_prompt, template_spec=template_spec)
  File "/opt/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/cli/command_modules/resource/custom.py", line 830, in _prepare_deployment_properties_unmodified
    template_obj = show_resource(cmd=cmd, resource_ids=[template_spec]).properties['template']
KeyError: 'template'
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/cli/core/commands/arm.py", line 103, in handle_template_based_exception
    raise CLIError(ex.inner_exception.error.message)
AttributeError: 'KeyError' object has no attribute 'inner_exception'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/knack/cli.py", line 215, in invoke
    cmd_result = self.invocation.execute(args)
  File "/opt/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/cli/core/commands/__init__.py", line 654, in execute
    raise ex
  File "/opt/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/cli/core/commands/__init__.py", line 718, 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 709, in _run_job
    cmd_copy.exception_handler(ex)
  File "/opt/az/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azure/cli/core/commands/arm.py", line 105, in handle_template_based_exception
    raise CLIError(ex)
knack.util.CLIError: 'template'

What could be wrong here ? Any suggestions is welcomed.

Answer 1

The issue was in the parameters file which Jenkins uses to trigger deployment, simple way to fix to pass ARM template parameters from the command line instead reading them from a file.

--parameters 'clusterName=XX' 'clusterLoginUserName=XX' 'clusterLoginPassword=XX' 'location=XX' 'clusterVersion=4.0' 'clusterKind=XX' 'sshUserName=XX' 'sshPassword=XX' 'minTlsVersionNumber=1.2'