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jianhuangbodun
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Apr 27, 2021

Template Specs Not Working as It Shows Error 'Template'

Hi Community,

 

I have not been able to use Azure Template Specs for 2 days already, whenever I tried to deploy the template specs it gives me the following error:

ERROR: 'template'

 

I believe it is an issue from Azure, even if I follow the following quick start guide, still getting the same error:
Create and deploy template spec - Azure Resource Manager | Microsoft Docs

note:
If deploy it using portal, it works.

If deploy the template file without using template specs, it works.

Only fails if deploy using template specs with the resource id, for example: 
az deployment group create --resource-group storageRG --template-spec $id

 

Please help if you have any insight on this issue, thanks.

 

Jian

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  • PinakiGhatak's avatar
    PinakiGhatak
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    Jun 05, 2021

    jianhuangbodun 

    The following examples might help you. See below.

    # Author : Pinaki Ghatak Microsoft
# Purpose : This is Github workflow  to deploy Azure Template specs from ARM templates

# Disclaimer : This is for demonstration and workshop purpose only. Please understand the logic, and verify and 
#              test before implementing this in your environment.

# Last update : 01-June-2021

name: 'PG-TemplateSpecs-CI-CD'
on:
  # Triggers the workflow on push or pull request events but only for the main branch
  push:
    branches: [ main ]
  pull_request:
    branches: [ main ]

  # Allows you to run this workflow manually from the Actions tab
  workflow_dispatch:
env:
  # Common variables
  WORKINGDIRECTORY: ${{ github.workspace }}/
  
  # Dev environment variables
  AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID: YourSubscription_d
  AZURE_RESOURCE_GROUP: 'Your-TemplateSpecs-RG' # Resource group for the Templatespecs

  
  #templatespecs  info
  TEMPLATESPEC_NAME : CS-AzureFunctions
  TEMPLATESPEC_VER : 0.1
  TEMPLATESPEC_DESC : 'Template for Azure Functions'
  TEMPLATE_SPEC_LOCATION: WestEurope
  
jobs:
  VerifyAndDeploy:
    name: Verify And Deploy
    runs-on: windows-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout source code
        uses: actions/checkout@v2

      # Login to Azure
      - name: Azure Login
        uses: azure/login@v1
        with:
          creds: ${{ secrets.AZURE_CREDENTIALS }}
          enable-AzPSSession: true

      - name: Deploy Template Spec
        uses: azure/powershell@v1
        with:
          azPSVersion: 'latest'
          inlinescript: |
            az ts create -g ${{ env.AZURE_RESOURCE_GROUP }} -n  ${{env.TEMPLATESPEC_NAME}} --description '${{env.TEMPLATESPEC_DESC}}' -v ${{env.AZFUNCTION_TEMPLATESPEC_VER}} -f ./ARMTemplates/main.json -y

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