Azure/CLI@V1 Error on Self-Hosted Runner on Azure AKS

[moulidz]

Hi,

I am facing an error while using Azure/CLI@V1 on my self-hosted runner on Azure Kubernetes Service.

The error:
ERROR: Please run 'az login' to setup account.
Error: Error: az cli script failed.

CLi version: 2.52.0 pre-installed on the AKS actions-runner image along with Azure powershell modules.

The Azure/Login@V1 is successful and Azure/Powershell@V1 is also successful. Only the Azure/CLI@V1 has the error.

On inspecting the docker image for the CLI, I found that the .azure folder is empty.

When I run the same workflow on an Azure VM self-hosted runner instead of AKS, the Azure/CLI@V1 works and it is the same version - 2.52.0

Is the error because of the latest version of CLI? Should I revert to 2.30.0?

Thanks
Mouli

[MoChilia]

Hi @moulidz,
Sorry for the delay. This issue could be due to docker incorrectly mounting the .azure folder created by the azure/login action. From my understanding, this issue is specific to self-hosted runners in AKS and appears to be a bug in the azure/cli action, unrelated to the Azure CLI version. I'll need some time to investigate and resolve this. Thank you for your patience.

[moulidz]

Hi @MoChilia,

Sure. I will also test on my side with different configurations and update here if i find anything.

[spowser]

Hello @MoChilia ,

This may be related. I am also getting an error when running the agent from an attached disk in Azure. The agent runs on a Linux VM from a mounted drive at /mnt/blah/whatever/action-runner. The error I'm seeing is

Starting script execution via docker image mcr.microsoft.com/azure-cli:2.57.0
Error: Error: docker: Error response from daemon: create undefined/.azure: "undefined/.azure" includes invalid characters for a local volume name, only "[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9_.-]" are allowed. If you intended to pass a host directory, use absolute path.

Hope this helps either reproduce it or narrow down the root cause

[moulidz]

Hi,

I tried the az cli action from a new self-hosted runner using the github arc runner. Got a different error here:

Starting script execution via docker image mcr.microsoft.com/azure-cli:2.57.0 Error: Error: docker: Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?.

Thanks
mouli

[vijayrajah]

I face the same issue with azure/login@v2 ( with self hosted runner on AKS)

for the workaround, I'm installing azure cli on every action run & using it

[MoChilia]

Hi @vijayrajah, you can try running az login inside azure/cli instead of azure/login.

    - name: Azure CLI Action
      uses: azure/cli@v2
      with:
        azcliversion: latest
        inlineScript: |
           az login --service-principal --username ${{ secrets.AZURE_CLIENT_ID }} --password ${{ secrets.AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET }} --tenant ${{ secrets.AZURE_TENANT_ID }}
           az account set --subscription ${{ secrets.AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID }}