General CI failure in lint due to Azure error `No hosted parallelism has been purchased or granted`

[raufs]

Hi,

There seems to be an issue running checks within pull requests, with the Azure pipeline reporting the following during the lint step:

"##[error]No hosted parallelism has been purchased or granted. To request a free parallelism grant, please fill out the following form https://aka.ms/azpipelines-parallelism-request"

Here is a link to the most recent example:

https://dev.azure.com/bioconda/bioconda-recipes/_build/results?buildId=33719&view=results

I am not very familiar with bioconda, so please let me know if this is an issue with my specific pull request - but I see similar errors in other recent PRs.

Thank you, Rauf

[corneliusroemer]

Thanks for reporting! This looks like an almost total CI failure.

Maintainer @dpryan79 is aware and has filled out the form. See Gitter:

dpryan79: Yup, that started a couple hours ago. Either Azure has a glitch or suddenly changed their policies. I've filled out the form but I'm not entirely sure how long it will take for them to fix things. https://matrix.to/#/!MhHkICgthNLZeLiygG:gitter.im/$ezjqA7IjaBRDtSNEJI4WW_WHIdRGFwl_RnXZZabIwgE?via=gitter.im&via=matrix.org&via=staffchat.ethz.ch

[corneliusroemer]

Some background on this error message, weird that it happens now, not 2 years ago when this was rolled out https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68405027/how-to-resolve-no-hosted-parallelism-has-been-purchased-or-granted-in-free-tie

[wwood]

This seems to be happening again for multiple (all?) pacakges, suspiciously around 1 year later. e.g. https://github.com/bioconda/bioconda-recipes/pull/47843 https://github.com/bioconda/bioconda-recipes/pull/47850

[xonq]

getting this error this morning: #47804

[daler]

For this year's update: I submitted the request to reinstate parallelism on Friday, and an hour ago I got a reply from Azure saying the request is "completed", but I'm not seeing any successful builds yet. I asked what sort of timeline we can expect for being able to resume jobs but haven't heard back yet.

[martin-g]

@daler I guess it has been discussed in the past but have the Bioconda team considered using Github Actions instead of Azure as CI for linux-x86_64 and osx-x8_64? @aliciaaevans is almost done (I think) with the impl for osx-arm64, so I guess it won't be much work to use it for x86_64 too.

[corneliusroemer]

For this year's update: I submitted the request to reinstate parallelism on Friday, and an hour ago I got a reply from Azure saying the request is "completed", but I'm not seeing any successful builds yet. I asked what sort of timeline we can expect for being able to resume jobs but haven't heard back yet.

Thanks @daler! Shame, it's still not working 36 hours later. We should put in a reminder for early May 2025 to write Azure preemptively 🙃