Customer feedback | az container create | New required options for az container create command

[dbradish-microsoft]

Type of issue

Other (describe below)

Reference command name

az container create

Feedback

This GitHub issue is being moved from MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs-cli 4812.

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We ran into multiple errors this morning while rolling out routine updates to our Azure Container instances. We use the command az container create to deploy new sets of containers, and an example of this is below.

  az container create \
    --resource-group  \
    --name \
    --image \
    --restart-policy \
    --location \
    --command-line \
    --environment-variables \
    --memory \
    --registry-username \
    --registry-password \
    --only-show-errors

This morning we got errors for multiple new items needing to be added, which are not documented as required.

--os-type

ERROR: (InvalidOsType) The 'osType' for container group '<null>' is invalid. The value must be one of 'Windows,Linux'.
Code: InvalidOsType
Message: The 'osType' for container group '<null>' is invalid. The value must be one of 'Windows,Linux'.

--cpu

ERROR: (ResourceSomeRequestsNotSpecified) The 'Cpu' request is not specified in 'MemoryInGB '6' Cpu ''' in container 'vergesense-analytics-backend-staging-sidekiq-1' of contain group 'vergesense-analytics-backend-staging-sidekiq-1'. It is required since API version '2017-07-01-preview'.
Code: ResourceSomeRequestsNotSpecified
Message: The 'Cpu' request is not specified in 'MemoryInGB '6' Cpu ''' in container 'vergesense-analytics-backend-staging-sidekiq-1' of contain group 'vergesense-analytics-backend-staging-sidekiq-1'. It is required since API version '2017-07-01-preview'.

It's worth noting that I was able to run these commands with Azure CLI 2.65.0 without issue, but once upgraded to 2.67.0 I encountered both errors.

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/container?view=azure-cli-latest#az_container_create

Content source URL

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs-cli/blob/main/latest/docs-ref-autogen/container.yml

Author

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Document Id

ba32e12d-8283-f980-e1d0-1ca2a75a5152

[yonzhan]

Thank you for opening this issue, we will look into it.

[rfcdejong]

Same issue here, suddenly --cpu and --memory are required in az container create. The documentation is indeed behind.

[dbradish-microsoft]

@yonzhan, who owns the source code for az container create? Does this command fall under "Container Service"? If so, can @qike-ms , @jwilder , @thomas1206 and @seanmck kindly respond?

[yonzhan]

cc @dkkapur.

[Soumik-CICD]

Azure Cli error while running the pipeline, I get the below error. How to fix the error
ERROR: (InvalidOsType) The 'osType' for container group '' is invalid. The value must be one of 'Windows,Linux'.
Code: InvalidOsType
Message: The 'osType' for container group '' is invalid. The value must be one of 'Windows,Linux'.

[Marcel-Jan]

I got the same error when creating a container instance on the command line, following the tutorial (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-instances/container-instances-tutorial-deploy-app)

az container create --resource-group myresourcegroup --name aci-tutorial-app --image mycontainerregister.azurecr.io/aci-tutorial-app:v1 --cpu 1 --memory 1 --registry-login-server mycontainerregister.azurecr.io --registry-username mycontainerregister --registry-password SomeThingVeryComplex01 --ip-address Public --dns-name-label aci-tutorial-app --ports 80

Message:
(InvalidOsType) The 'osType' for container group '<null>' is invalid. The value must be one of 'Windows,Linux'. Code: InvalidOsType Message: The 'osType' for container group '<null>' is invalid. The value must be one of 'Windows,Linux'.

Didn't have any success via the Portal either. But there I don't even get logs.

[Marcel-Jan]

I think I've found what was wrong in my case, because when I removed the version number in --image it was finally .. well .. starting. The containers were in Running state, but also being Killed all the time and restarting. And there are no logs available. But this is another problem.

[Marcel-Jan]

I forgot to mention that I added the osType with this parameter: --os-type Linux
So my command looks like this now:
az container create --resource-group myresourcegroup --name aci-tutorial-app --image mycontainerregister.azurecr.io/aci-tutorial-app:v1 --cpu 1 --memory 1 --registry-login-server mycontainerregister.azurecr.io --registry-username mycontainerregister --registry-password SomeThingVeryComplex01 --os-type Linux --ip-address Public --dns-name-label aci-tutorial-app --ports 80

That at least gets you around the osType error.

[PhilnPhil]

Create a container
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-instances/container-instances-quickstart#code-try-0

Errors:

1. The 'osType' for container group '' is invalid. The value must be one of 'Windows,Linux'.
2. Both memory and CPU requests are required since API version '2017-07-01-preview'

Workaround:
Add the os type, cpu and memory
--os-type Linux --cpu 1 --memory 1

Example:
az container create --resource-group myResourceGroup --name mycontainer --image mcr.microsoft.com/azuredocs/aci-helloworld --dns-name-label aci-demo-phil --ports 80 --os-type Linux --cpu 1 --memory 1