azure-cli: az vm create fails with error VMCustomization is not enabled

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Describe the bug

Following basic how to on creating vms from command line doesn’t work, and preview feature doesn’t appear in azure. https://app.pluralsight.com/course-player?clipId=4924ba21-099c-42e1-8683-a131b1f5e442

Closest thing I found is this signup page, which doesn’t really help much: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=v4j5cvGGr0GRqy180BHbR3_Cn0JTTIxChanY12UDdkpUMDNRRFdHSTRUMU1OUjBTSkw0MFFIRThFRi4u&web=1&wdLOR=c82F6F682-783D-477D-B824-BF81D3A7C7D3

Command Name az vm create

Errors:

{"status":"Failed","error":{"code":"DeploymentFailed","message":"At least one resource deployment operation failed. Please list deployment operations for details. Please see https://aka.ms/DeployOperations for usage details.","details":[{"code":"BadRequest","message":"{\r\n  \"error\": {\r\n    \"code\": \"BadRequest\",\r\n    \"message\": \"'VMCustomization' is not enabled for the Subscription. Please register the Subscription for 'Microsoft.Compute/VMCustomizationPreview' to use the feature.\"\r\n  }\r\n}"}]}}

To Reproduce:

Steps to reproduce the behavior. Note that argument values have been redacted, as they may contain sensitive information.

az login az group create az vm create --resource-group “psdemo-rg-2” --name “psdemo-win-cli” --image “win2019datacenter” --admin-username “demoadmin” --admin-password “<snip>” --public-ip-sku Standard

Expected Behavior

creates a vm

Environment Summary

Windows-10-10.0.19041-SP0
Python 3.8.9
Installer: MSI

azure-cli 2.33.0

Additional Context

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 2 years ago
Reactions: 8
Comments: 22 (6 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

2.33.0 is currently the active version in azure cloud shell as well, hope the upcoming hotfix will be pushed there as well.

bertneef on Feb 11, 2022

The easiest workaround is to downgrade to the previous version. On Ubuntu/Debian, users can check what the previous version was with apt-cache policy azure-cli and downgrade apt install azure-cli=$VERSION.

They can also pin this version for now:

cat << EOF > /etc/apt/preferences.d/99-azure-cli
Package: azure-cli
Pin: version $VERSION
Pin-Priority: 999
EOF

But they will have to remove this file when a fixed package gets released.

gjolly on Feb 9, 2022

Cloud Shell is showing the 2.33.1 update now.

@Azure:~$ az --version azure-cli 2.33.1

neanderson on Feb 18, 2022

On WSL2 Ubuntu this worked for me:

# 2.33.0
az --version

# find what I had previously (look at the top of the list)
apt-cache policy azure-cli

# downgrade
sudo apt install azure-cli=2.32.0-1~bionic

# refresh token
az login

djhmateer on Feb 10, 2022

@j5awry @ozzy92 OK, we will solve this issue as soon as possible, and we plan to release the hotfix next Monday (02-14).

zhoxing-ms on Feb 10, 2022

For reference, I’ve submitted an issue to the Azure CloudShell repo as well, linking back to this issue. Thanks to the CLI team for the rapid fix, look forward to seeing it also in CloudShell!

https://github.com/Azure/CloudShell/issues/145

ssennettau on Feb 18, 2022

@zhoxing-ms : I’d kindly request that this move faster. This currently affects all new installs, as well as anyone upgrading on Windows or from the latest Linux distro PPAs (for Ubuntu, the hirsute PPA). For my team, this breaks some integrations, as well as members of my team. A workaround for Debian based distros is below. Something similar will probably work for RHEL based (untested).

Minimally, please document the workaround for the broken Windows versions (at least noting the broken version and pointing to the docs to pinning to a version)

For those coming from Debian or Ubuntu: the Microsoft PPAs have past versions, so you can look up the version previous to this push, pin to that version, and force a downgrade. For those on Ubuntu non-LTS > Focal, you can also “fallback” to the Focal PPA as that version (2.27.2-1~focal) is operating as expected. NOTE: I’m running Ubuntu Impish (21.10) desktop with the Focal package, and it’s operating fine.

j5awry on Feb 9, 2022