Using Managed storage results in the ansible Azure ARM plugin failure

[ivanthelad]

it seems that the msrest ansible plugin cannot handle the situation where no storage account is used for the for the osdisk of a vm. this fails client/server side vaildations.

One solution would be to abandon the usage of the plugin as it obviously cannot keep pace with the api development. Switch to a command based approach?

An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: msrest.exceptions.ValidationError: Parameter 'OSDisk.vhd' can not be None. failed: [localhost] (item={'key': u'jumphost1', 'value': {u'datadisksize': 64, u'storagtype': u'Premium_LRS', u'machinesize': u'Standard_DS2_v2', u'name': u'jumphost1', u'tags': {u'region': u'westeurope', u'type': u'jumphost', u'zone': u'jumphost', u'stage': u'jumphost'}}}) => {"failed": true, "item": {"key": "jumphost1", "value": {"datadisksize": 64, "machinesize": "Standard_DS2_v2", "name": "jumphost1", "storagtype": "Premium_LRS", "tags": {"region": "westeurope", "stage": "jumphost", "type": "jumphost", "zone": "jumphost"}}}, "module_stderr": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n File "/tmp/ansible_yCJ0uk/ansible_module_azure_rm_virtualmachine.py", line 1305, in \n main()\n File "/tmp/ansible_yCJ0uk/ansible_module_azure_rm_virtualmachine.py", line 1302, in main\n AzureRMVirtualMachine()\n File "/tmp/ansible_yCJ0uk/ansible_module_azure_rm_virtualmachine.py", line 548, in init\n supports_check_mode=True)\n File "/tmp/ansible_yCJ0uk/ansible_modlib.zip/ansible/module_utils/azure_rm_common.py", line 184, in init\n File "/tmp/ansible_yCJ0uk/ansible_module_azure_rm_virtualmachine.py", line 619, in exec_module\n vm_dict = self.serialize_vm(vm)\n File "/tmp/ansible_yCJ0uk/ansible_module_azure_rm_virtualmachine.py", line 894, in serialize_vm\n result = self.serialize_obj(vm, AZURE_OBJECT_CLASS, enum_modules=AZURE_ENUM_MODULES)\n File "/tmp/ansible_yCJ0uk/ansible_modlib.zip/ansible/module_utils/azure_rm_common.py", line 385, in serialize_obj\n File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/msrest/serialization.py", line 298, in body\n return self._serialize(data, data_type, **kwargs)\n File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/msrest/serialization.py", line 241, in _serialize\n target_obj, data_type, **kwargs)\n File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/msrest/serialization.py", line 427, in serialize_data\n return self._serialize(data, **kwargs)\n File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/msrest/serialization.py", line 263, in _serialize\n orig_attr, attr_type, **kwargs)\n File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/msrest/serialization.py", line 427, in serialize_data\n return self._serialize(data, **kwargs)\n File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/msrest/serialization.py", line 263, in _serialize\n orig_attr, attr_type, **kwargs)\n File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/msrest/serialization.py", line 427, in serialize_data\n return self._serialize(data, **kwargs)\n File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/msrest/serialization.py", line 261, in _serialize\n orig_attr, debug_name, **validation)\n File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/msrest/serialization.py", line 376, in validate\n raise ValidationError("required", name, True)\nmsrest.exceptions.ValidationError: Parameter 'OSDisk.vhd' can not be None.\n", "module_stdout": "", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE"}

[ivanthelad]

@tahonen i updated the scripts to use managed disks (no more storage accounts).

This has resulted in basically all the the usages azure_arm_virtualmachine plugin to fail. Basically i'm using a more upto date api. Where the return values from azure api is not what the azure_arm_virtualmachine expects. (specifically that it always expects a osdisk to exist )

• Restart and tagging is broken.

I think from now on its best to start doing ansible "command" for the azure bits. The provisioing still works