Unable to deploy because of invalid characters in the storage account name

Question

I am following this official microsoft tutorial - link. I have completed till the stage of creating function app from azure.

But the deployment part fails

This is the log in the output channel

12:12:10 httpFuncApp01: Creating zip package...
12:12:10 httpFuncApp01: Adding 5 files to zip package...
12:12:10 httpFuncApp01: /Users/dhruv/Documents/functions_azure/http_func/function_app.py
12:12:10 httpFuncApp01: /Users/dhruv/Documents/functions_azure/http_func/__pycache__/function_app.cpython-312.pyc
12:12:10 httpFuncApp01: /Users/dhruv/Documents/functions_azure/http_func/.funcignore
12:12:10 httpFuncApp01: /Users/dhruv/Documents/functions_azure/http_func/requirements.txt
12:12:10 httpFuncApp01: /Users/dhruv/Documents/functions_azure/http_func/host.json
12:12:10 httpFuncApp01: Zip package size: 2.4 kB
12:12:13 httpFuncApp01: Starting deployment pipeline.
12:12:13 httpFuncApp01: [Kudu-SourcePackageUriDownloadStep] Skipping download. Zip package is present at /tmp/zipdeploy/545023c2-561b-4003-b3b1-d7e40e3ece6f.zip
12:12:13 httpFuncApp01: [Kudu-ValidationStep] starting.
12:12:13 httpFuncApp01: [StorageAccessibleCheck] Error while checking access to storage account using Kudu.Legion.Core.Storage.BlobContainerStorage: BlobUploadFailedException: Failed to upload blob to storage account: The specifed resource name contains invalid characters.
12:12:13 httpFuncApp01: InaccessibleStorageException: Failed to access storage account for deployment: BlobUploadFailedException: Failed to upload blob to storage account: The specifed resource name contains invalid characters.
12:12:16 httpFuncApp01: Deployment failed.

I have checked the naming convention for storage account - only lowercase letters and numbers. The name of the storage account follows this convention. Can anyone help me to see what is the actual reason for failure?

Answer 1

Hello Dhruv Singla,

Thanks for your question

httpfuncapp012 looks like a good name imo. So i would suggest the following checks:

• Check for Invalid Characters in Project Paths
• Check that none of your file or folder names contain spaces, unicode characters or special symbols
• Create a new, clean folder for your Function App code and redeploy
  • func azure functionapp publish httpFuncApp01 --python
• Another option is to manually create and rerun your pipeline

Also see:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/troubleshooting/error-storage-account-name?source=recommendations&tabs=bicep

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Regards,

Abiola