Deployment template validation failed: 'Circular dependency detected

Question

Hi my name 'is Ihsen, I'm facing a problem with an ARM template I downloaded after creating 21 resources in one resource group. I needed to duplicate those resources so I downloaded the template from automation in the resource group and tried to redeploy but it failed and the error message "

Deployment template validation failed: 'Circular dependency detected on resource: '/subscriptions/cce101e5-47ab-456d-86bb-35d89664e720/resourceGroups/ihsentest/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/myVM1'. Please see https://aka.ms/arm-syntax-resources for usage details.'. (Code: InvalidTemplate)

". It's not my template, it's azure generated template and it failed.

Answer 1

Hi, @Ihsen Alaya

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Q&A forum.

It seems the problem is NOT a MDT related problem, you may add the corresponding tag so that the experts who are familiar with that topic may help.

Personally, I searched this, you may check to see if it helps:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/troubleshooting/error-invalid-template?tabs=bicep#solution-5-circular-dependency-detected

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