This is a scheduled windows-2016 brownout

[juliensl]

Hey everybody !

I am facing an issue on my Azure pipelines since today.

When I try to make a deployment, I have got this issue for the release pipeline :

This is a scheduled windows-2016 brownout. The windows-2016 environment is deprecated and will be removed on March 15, 2022. For more details, see https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/4312 

I understand that I should update this windows pipeline version but... Where should I do this ?

I can see that the Agent specification is vs2017-win2016 :

I cannot find anywhere to change it.

This is a Hosted agents provided by Azure, at the 2.198.3 version.

I did not make this pipeline, and I do not understand everything, so I search 2016 and 2017 in my YAML files and I found this ?

{
            "name": "ConnectAKStoACR-aaaaaa-aaaaaa-aaaa-aaaa-aaaaaa",
            "type": "Microsoft.Resources/deployments",
            "apiVersion": "2017-05-10",
            "resourceGroup": "[parameters('acrResourceGroup')]",
            "dependsOn": [
                "[concat('Microsoft.ContainerService/managedClusters/', parameters('resourceName'))]"
            ],
            "properties": {
                "mode": "Incremental",
                "template": {
                    "$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2015-01-01/deploymentTemplate.json#",
                    "contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",
                    "resources": [
                        {
                            "apiVersion": "2018-09-01-preview",
                            "type": "Microsoft.ContainerRegistry/registries/providers/roleAssignments",
                            "name": "[concat(parameters('acrName'), '/Microsoft.Authorization/', parameters('guidValue'))]",
                            "properties": {
                                "principalId": "[reference(parameters('resourceName'), '2020-09-01').identityProfile.kubeletidentity.objectId]",
                                "principalType": "ServicePrincipal",
                                "roleDefinitionId": "[concat('/subscriptions/', subscription().subscriptionId, '/providers/Microsoft.Authorization/roleDefinitions/', 'aaaaaa-aaaaaa-aaaaaa-aaaaaa')]",
                                "scope": "[resourceId(parameters('acrResourceGroup'),'Microsoft.ContainerRegistry/registries/', parameters('acrName'))]"
                            }
                        }
                    ]
                }
            }
        }

(I wrote aaa-aaaa-aaaa to not exposed my ids)

I searched more about this package, ConnectAKStoACR but I cannot find any versions list :(

Does anybody know how to update my agents ? Or which keyword should I search in my YAML files ?

Thank you for your help.

Yours faithfully

[#2 · Accepted solution]

@juliensl You probably already figured this out.  I just ran into it today and for me it was associated with 3 release pipelines that didn't get processed.

For me, I needed to go to dev.azure.com, and check each of my releases:

1) click on a release.

2) click on Edit in the upper right corner

3) click on the deploy stage

4) click on Run on agent

5) you should see something like this: 

If your Agent Specification shows vs2017-win2016, you need to change it to one of the newer versions.

(You can just run that fixed release, and it'll take care of the one that failed previously)

[#3]

Hi @JSBSF !

Exactly what I did, thank you to explained it here, could be usefull for everybody :)

Have a nice day

[#4]

Hello Folks,
Thanks for putting this together as it helped me resolve this brownout issue.

All the best