Urgnet : Containers Instance ressource is not vailable

Question

Hello,

I get this error from today : "Error: The requested resource is not available in the location 'westeurope' at this moment. Please retry with a different resource request or in another location. Resource requested: '4' CPU '4' GB memory 'Linux' OS".

Even decrease ressource to 1 CPU and RAM not solve the issues?

Answer 1

The issues is caused by azure ressources. The service is fonctional again a few hours later.

But is there a best solution to avoid the no availability of Azure services?

Answer 2

Hi @57780727

As most of the Azure services rely somehow on a virtualized environment that runs on dedicated hardware, and the demand for several services raised during the pandemic, and there are still problems with the delivery chain... so it might happen from time to time that some services are not able to deploy new additional resources as the underlying infrastructure is not available (due to high demand)... maybe after some hours (as you recognized) you were able to deploy your container instance... as other customer shut down their application/containers, perhaps they needed those only during the night for processing.

Best solution?
There is no best solution; implement an error handling into your automated deployment scripts and let them run/loop until the resources are available.
Or "never" delete your own resources ;-)

Microsoft always tries to improve the hardware and availability of resources, but they also have to fight the unavailability of hardware and have to wait often to refresh their hardware...

I hope my answer is helpful to you,

Your
Bjoern Peters

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