Code=DeploymentActive

Question

I am running bicep script to deploy I am getting below error

10:57:17 AM - Error: Code=DeploymentActive; Message=Unable to edit or replace deployment 'xxxxDEV-Apim': previous deployment from '7/17/2023 2:56:35 PM' is still active (expiration time is '7/24/2023 2:56:31 PM'). Please see https://aka.ms/arm-deploy-resources for usage details.

I did check deployment status following path

resourcegroup -> deployment ->List(xxxxDEV-Apim) -> Status (Successful)

I did delete it and re-run deployment again. Still I could see same error.

In short deleting deployment from resource group not helping.

I am stuck and don't know how to proceed further, please help?

Answer 1

I am also experiencing this issue daily when executing bicep templates via Azure DevOps pipeline.

Unable to edit or replace deployment 'cosmos-account': previous deployment from '3/21/2024 4:50:20 PM' is still active (expiration time is '3/28/2024 4:50:19 PM'). Please see https://aka.ms/arm-deploy-resources for usage details. (Code: DeploymentActive)

Under Subscription > Deployments, the deployment is in a failed state and cannot be canceled. Additionally under Subscription > Resource Group > Deployments, the deployment is in a failed state and cannot be canceled. Deleting a deployment is not advisable for traceability.

If I drill into the 'cosmos-account' deployment error, all of its components happen to be deployed successfully, but the overall deployment failed.

I've executed this deployment multiple times. This error is intermittent.

Answer 2

@Pankaj Zade (Hitachi) Azure APIM resources are by default soft-deleted when done from the Azure Portal. This is to protect against accidental deletion of services.

In your case, since you are sure you want to delete the service, you will need to purge the soft-deleted instance. This can be done via the REST API as the docs mention or even using the az apim deletedservice purge command in Azure CLI.

Answer 3

Hi,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Q&A forum.

The error indicates that there is a previous deployment that is still active and hasn't expired yet. You can't create a new deployment to replace or edit the active deployment until it has expired.

Per my experience, to resolve this issue, you need to wait until the active deployment expires or you can manually delete the active deployment from the command line using Azure CLI or PowerShell. You can try to use the Azure deployment group delete command in Azure CLI or the Remove-AzResourceGroupDeployment command in PowerShell to delete deployments from the history.

If you want to delete all deployments older than a certain number of days, you can use the --older-than parameter. For example, to delete all deployments older than five days, you can try the following command in Azure CLI:

az deployment group delete --resource-group <resource-group-name> --name <deployment-name> --older-than 5d

Refer to: az deployment group

And, for PowerShell, you can run the following command:

Remove-AzResourceGroupDeployment -ResourceGroupName <resource-group-name> -Name <deployment-name> -AgeFilterInDays 5

Thanks for your time. Have a nice day!

Best regards,

Simon

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Answer 4

Hi, I'm experiencing this issue daily when deploying from Azure DevOps and for traceability purposes, I'm not too keen to delete any deployment history. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Matt We are using unique names for the bicep modules, like e.g.:

module
  

My deployment yaml looks like this:

          - powershell: |
              $timestamp =  Get-Date -Format "yyyyMMddTHHmmssss"
              Write-Host "##vso[task.setvariable variable=timestamp;isoutput=true]$timestamp"          
            name: setTimestamp

          - task: AzureCLI@2
            inputs:
              azureSubscription: '${{ parameters.SubscriptionConnectionId }}'
              scriptType: 'bash'
              scriptLocation: 'inlineScript'
              workingDirectory: $(System.ArtifactsDirectory)
              inlineScript: |
                az deployment group create \
                  --name $(setTimestamp.timestamp) \
                  --resource-group ${{ parameters.ResourceGroup }} \
                  --template-file ${{parameters.TemplateRelativeFileLocation}} \
                  --parameters ${{parameters.ParametersRelativeFileLocation}} 		${{parameters.OptionalArguments}}