BadRequest: The document creation or update failed because of invalid reference

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BadRequest: The document creation or update failed because of invalid reference

AyusmanBasu-6332 6

I'm trying to deploy an ADF pipeline using CICD (Azure DevOps Deployment) using a release pipeline. Here I'm trying to merge stuff from my Collaboration branch to master (usig GIT). I'm also using: Azure Deployment:Create Or Update Resource Group action (Agent Job) as a part of the Continuous Deployment Process

I'm getting the following error:

[error]At least one resource deployment operation failed. Please list deployment operations for details. Please see https://aka.ms/DeployOperations for usage details. ##[error]Details: ##[error]BadRequest: The document creation or update failed because of invalid reference 'irslinked'. ##[error]Check out the troubleshooting guide to see if your issue is addressed: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/deploy/azure-resource-group-deployment?view=azure-devops#troubleshooting ##[error]Task failed while creating or updating the template deployment.

irslinked is the name of a self-hosted IR (Linked)
this IR: irslinked is also included in the overwrite template parameters list.

KranthiPakala-MSFT 46,642 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2020-06-19T20:02:35.903+00:00
Hi @AyusmanBasu-6332 ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A and thanks for your query.

As per my understanding you are deploying a template where a resource is referencing another resource (irslinked) that doesn't exist in your target branch.

Does the ARM template contain the irslinked ir?

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KranthiPakala-MSFT 46,642 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2020-06-22T17:35:23.087+00:00

Hi @AyusmanBasu-6332 ,

Just checking to see if you have got a chance to see my previous response? If so, could you please confirm on the above ask?

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KranthiPakala-MSFT 46,642 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2020-06-23T15:57:12.937+00:00

Hi @AyusmanBasu-6332 ,

Following up to see if you still need assistance on this issue. In case if you have already found a solution, please do consider to share it here with community.

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AyusmanBasu-6332 6 Reputation points

2020-06-24T04:28:43.707+00:00

Sorry for the late reply Kranthi.

Yes, ARM template contain the irslinked ir.

But the resource which the irslinked is referring(self-hosted IR) is present in a different Data Factory

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KranthiPakala-MSFT 46,642 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2020-06-19T20:02:35.903+00:00

Hi @AyusmanBasu-6332 ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A and thanks for your query.

As per my understanding you are deploying a template where a resource is referencing another resource (irslinked) that doesn't exist in your target branch.

Does the ARM template contain the irslinked ir?

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Thank you
KranthiPakala-MSFT 46,642 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2020-06-22T17:35:23.087+00:00

Hi @AyusmanBasu-6332 ,

Just checking to see if you have got a chance to see my previous response? If so, could you please confirm on the above ask?

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Thanks
KranthiPakala-MSFT 46,642 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2020-06-23T15:57:12.937+00:00

Hi @AyusmanBasu-6332 ,

Following up to see if you still need assistance on this issue. In case if you have already found a solution, please do consider to share it here with community.

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Thanks
AyusmanBasu-6332 6 Reputation points

2020-06-24T04:28:43.707+00:00

Sorry for the late reply Kranthi.

Yes, ARM template contain the irslinked ir.

But the resource which the irslinked is referring(self-hosted IR) is present in a different Data Factory

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MartinJaffer-MSFT 26,236

The way a linked IR ( using one hosted by other factory) is defined, is different from how a shared IR ( one hosted in this factory, but usable by others) is defined.

A problem can occur if you take an ARM template from the hosting factory, and try to deploy it to another factory. Since the ARM template was taken from the host factory, the new factory will look for something that isn't there. The new factory will think it is the host of the IR, when it is not.

The way to avoid this problem , is to have a third factory which is used just for hosting the IR's. This way all your environments can use the same linked IR definition.

Is this the case for you, @AyusmanBasu-6332 ?

AyusmanBasu-6332 6 Reputation points

2020-06-29T10:36:32.657+00:00

So basically in my case there is a Production Data Factory and then a Development environment Data Factory.

Prod ADF:
has shared IR

Dev ADF:
has linked IR

the shared IR doesn't exist in Dev ADF and vice-versa. possible reason for template error?

Now, I'm trying to do a CICD a deployment using Azure DevOps Deployment process. That's when the Agent Job gives me the error. Could this also be a GIT branching issue?
MartinJaffer-MSFT 26,236 Reputation points

2020-06-29T17:16:52.96+00:00

Yes , we are talking about the same case. You are getting the error because your are mixing shared and linked IR's.

This is called out in the third bullet point of best practices for ci/cd.
MartinJaffer-MSFT 26,236 Reputation points

2020-07-08T18:20:30.943+00:00

@AyusmanBasu-6332 Please let me know if the above information helped you. If you still need assistance, please let us know, and we will be happy re-engage.
Shinde, Tejeshri 0 Reputation points

2023-07-19T18:08:54.2133333+00:00

i am facing same error but on msi while trying to deply blob type linked service

Error: waiting for creation of Template Deployment "<deployment-name>" (Resource Group "rg-name"): 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":"BadRequest","message":"{\r\n "error": {\r\n "code": "BadRequest",\r\n "message": "The document creation or update failed because of invalid reference '****-msi-name'.",\r\n "target": "/subscriptions/##blob_storage##",\r\n "details": null\r\n }\r\n}"}]

Although i have this msi created under the same resource group.

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