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Azure

AZ quota exhausted, bad config in Bicep

I’m experiencing issues again with deploying App Services to Azure’s data center in West Europe. In December 2023, I saw a similar issue with DSv5 availability. As of August 9, 2024, I’m stuck with what appears to be capacity issues again. However, it turns out that was not the case.

{
    "code": "DeploymentFailed",
    "message": "At least one resource deployment operation failed. Please list deployment operations for details. Please see https:\/\/aka.ms\/arm-deployment-operations for usage details.",
    "details": [
        {
            "code": "Unauthorized",
            "message": "Operation cannot be completed without additional AZ quota. Please file a support ticket to request a limit increase. \r\nAdditional details - Location: West Europe \r\nCurrent Limit (Premium0V3 VMs): 0. \r\nCurrent Usage: 0. \r\nAmount required for this deployment (Premium0V3 VMs): 1. \r\n(Minimum) New Limit that you should request to enable this deployment: 1. \r\nNote that if you experience multiple scaling operations failing (in addition to this one) and need to accommodate the aggregate quota requirements of these operations, you will need to request a higher quota limit than the one currently displayed."
        }
    ]
}
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Azure News

Azure outage on July 30th, 2024

At this moment I saw many services becoming unavailable and also portal.azure.com is no longer available. The status on azure.com shows issues with accessing the portal, but the effects seem to be broader than that. At Microsoft, this case is known by the Tracking ID: KTY1-HW8

https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status (2024-07-30 14:29) Tracking ID: KTY1-HW8

Disruptions started at 12:06 UTC or 14:06 CEST based on my monitoring.

https://web-performance.freshping.io/reports?check_id=*** (2024-07-30 15:11)

After the big outtage originated by cloudstrike on July 19th, 2024 we see right away the next big issue on July 30th, 2024. Having contencanly plans and desater processes becomes more and more important.

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Azure

New Kudu for Linux App Service

Already published in February 2020 with the “preview”-state, the new Kudu was published on Microsoft’s website. But until recently, I was also not aware that this existed. Now in July 2024, the default link from the Azure portal still leads to the old Kudu, with the new Kudu only available if you know it’s there.

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Azure Sitecore

Service Bus Explorer

Recently, I posted about Redis. This time it’s about Azure Service Bus. Also, the options for Azure Service Bus in the Azure Portal are improving, allowing you to do more and more.

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Azure Sitecore Web

Redis GUI Client for Debugging

Working on Azure, most application directly interact with Redis. However, for debugging or handling incidents, visibility into Redis and its storage can be beneficial. The Azure portal seems to be constantly adding more features in this area. If this is insufficient, a Redis Client can be beneficial. I personally like this client.

https://goanother.com

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Azure Security

Azure Front Door configuring  SSL/TLS cipher 

After a recent penetration test on an Azure website, I received a report stating that I need to disable CBC ciphers in my TLS configuration. I was able to reproduce the issue.

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html (2024-04-25)

However, I found that on Azure Front Door Standard and Azure Front Door Premium, it’s not possible to configure the cipher order or the selection of ciphers. All of this is fully managed by Microsoft.

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Azure

Amazing Icon Downloader for portal.azure.com

Easily find and download SVG Icons from a Azure Portal. If you need to create documentation or platform drawings, it can be very helpful to use the official icons from Azure. Not all of them are contained in the official SVG package.

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Azure News

Azure shared dashboard not found, February 2024

Today, February 19, 2024, at 07:30 CET, I discovered that my shared dashboards are no longer working on the Microsoft Azure Portal. This issue was observed across multiple tenants and subscriptions. I do not yet know the root cause, but I suspect that it is an incident on Azure’s side.

Dashboard not found

Dashboard ” no longer exists. It was previously published to resource group ‘dashboards’ in subscription ‘00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000’.

https://portal.azure.com/*** (2024-02-19 11:00 CET)
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Azure

Azure CLI, api-version is invalid

I supported with an issue involving the Azure CLI being called in an Azure DevOps Pipeline.

- task: AzureCLI@2
  displayName: Create Deployment Slot
  inputs:
    azureSubscription: "${{ variables.Azure_Subscription }}"
    scriptType: "bash"
    scriptLocation: "inlineScript"
    inlineScript: |
      az webapp deployment slot create 
        --name "${{ variables.Azure_WebAppName }}" 
        --resource-group "${{ variables.Azure_ResourceGroup }}" 
        --slot "${{ variables.Azure_DeploymentSlotName }}" 
        --configuration-source "${{ variables.Azure_WebAppName }}" 

It’s returning the error “InvalidApiVersionParameter” along with “The api-version ‘2023-01-01’ is invalid.”

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Azure News

Azure Incident on January 21, 2024

Azure was reporting an issue on their status page. I have found it to be impacting services.

https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status

The case was resolved. In 14 days (February 5th, 2024), we can expect a final report. The final report was posted.