Wrong xml format and value of Get-Deployment by using knife-azure to create a VM

[jackting73]

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/ee460804.aspx

We can get the right format and value of Azure REST api (Get-Deployment) if created the VM by Azure. By Powershell to get Ge-Deployment : By Azure JAVA SDK to get Get-Deployment :

However, we found it failed with wrong format and value if created by knife-azure. By Powershell to get Ge-Deployment : By Azure JAVA SDK to get Ge-Deployment :

The wrong format of Get-Deployment create by knife-azure :

chris-test1Productionfed1879427af455898376c545a779d5fSuspendedY2hyaXMtOTUyLTI=http://chris-test1.cloudapp.net/PFNlcnZpY2VDb25maWd1cmF0aW9uIHhtbG5zOnhzZD0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMS9YTUxTY2hlbWEiIHhtbG5zOnhzaT0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMS9YTUxTY2hlbWEtaW5zdGFuY2UiIHhtbG5zPSJodHRwOi8vc2NoZW1hcy5taWNyb3NvZnQuY29tL1NlcnZpY2VIb3N0aW5nLzIwMDgvMTAvU2VydmljZUNvbmZpZ3VyYXRpb24iPg0KICA8Um9sZSBuYW1lPSJjaHJpcy05NTItMiI+DQogICAgPEluc3RhbmNlcyBjb3VudD0iMSIgLz4NCiAgPC9Sb2xlPg0KPC9TZXJ2aWNlQ29uZmlndXJhdGlvbj4=chris-test1chris-test1StoppedDeallocatedStopped6904E4DFCC84CEBEFBB265E532BB25112987A9CC1chris-test1PersistentVMRoleNetworkConfiguration5986PowerShell5986tcpfalse3389Remote Desktop3389tcpfalseReadWritechris-test1-chris-test1-0-201505050830580485https://portalvhdsdqnt01flqwh9p.blob.core.windows.net/vhds/chris-test1-chris-test1-2015-05-05.vhda699494373c04fc0bc8f2bb1389d6106__Win2K8R2SP1-Datacenter-201504.01-en.us-127GB.vhdWindowsStandard_D1EAEA705B4F65B8A286B1CE95CF9DD58AA77FF553truefalsefalse2015-05-05T08:30:53Z2015-05-05T08:53:16Zchris-test1.g6.internal.cloudapp.net

[Aliasgar16]

Hi @jackting73

From my side I tried to reproduce the error for two Azure VMs (one created through Azure portal and the other one created through 'knife azure server create' command) by making API calls for Get-Deployment operation but I got 200OK as the status, but I ran into the same error as you got when I gave incorrect value for field like DeploymentName. So, could you please provide me the command(s) that you invoked through Untitled1.ps1 file so that I can figure out the exact issue.

• Thanks

[jackting73]

Hi @Aliasgar16

I follow this article to get the information : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kaushal/archive/2015/06/02/azure-rest-api-amp-powershell-retrieve-cloud-service-configuration.aspx

My untitled1.ps1 file contents as below: (you should replace the subscription id and thumbprint with yours)

Request Headers required to invoke the GET DEPLOYMENT REST API

$method = "GET" $headerDate = '2014-05-01' $headers = @{"x-ms-version"="$headerDate"}

$cloudservice = "azurechefnode"

$deployment = "azurechefnode"

$cloudservice = "dnsbychefknife" $deployment = "chefknifenode00" $ContentType = "application/xml"

Retrieving the subscription ID

$subID = "your subscription id" $URI = "https://management.core.windows.net/$subID/services/hostedservices/$cloudservice/deployments/$deployment"

Retrieving the certificate from Local Store

$cert = (Get-ChildItem Cert:\CurrentUser\My | ?{$_.Thumbprint -eq "your thumbprint"}).GetRawCertData()

converting the raw cert data to BASE64

$body = "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----n$([convert]::ToBase64String($cert))n-----END CERTIFICATE-----"

Retrieving the certificate ThumbPrint

$mgmtCertThumb = (Get-AzureSubscription -Current).Certificate.Thumbprint

Passing all the above parameters to Invoke-RestMethod cmdlet

$url = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $URI -Method $method -Headers $headers -CertificateThumbprint "your thumbprint" -ContentType $ContentType

$url.Deployment

$url.Deployment.RoleList.Role.ResourceExtensionReferences.ResourceExtensionReference

[Aliasgar16]

Hi @jackting73

• Things are working well from my side for both type of Azure VMs (one created through Azure portal and the other one created through knife azure server create command) using the script shared by you.
• What I suspect is that there might be issue with the deployment name that you are passing under the $URI field.
• I referred https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/ee460804.aspx to get the information about any specific deployment, it says that for ...deployments/DeploymentName we must use the Name element value for the cloud service that we get under the response for the request done through .../deploymentslots/production.
• Also some Googling said that the value of the deployment name is the first octet of the DNS name as shown in the example given below: eg.- DNS name: abcxyz.cloudapp.net Deployment name: abcxyz
• In my case I created the $URI in the same way and things worked well.

Let me know your response on this.

Thanks

[NimishaS]

@jackting73 , could you please verify if things are working for you using the suggestions provided above?

[jackting73]

Hi @Aliasgar16 ,

I follow your suggestion to create a VM by Azure which the DNS name and Deployment name are the same with "azurechefnode" then it works (I can get the slot and deployment names)

However, when I created a VM by knife which the DNS name and Deployment name are the same with "jackabcd" then it failed. (I tried to use base64-encoding, but still failed)

So, we guess it could be the response format which the VM was created by knife not the same with the spec on https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/ee460804.aspx

Please help verify the xml response format or anything possible. Thanks.

[Aliasgar16]

Hi @jackting73 ,

• knife-azure assigns base64-encoded value for deployment_label field and Azure API https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/ee460804.aspx expects the same for the deployment_label field. This does not affect the output and the script that you provided works fine if we pass same value for cloud_service_name and deployment_name fields for the VMs created through knife or even through Azure portal.
• We are using Azure Powershell version 0.9.6 (Revision -1). Difference in azure PS version can also be a possibility for this behaviour. Please share which version of Azure Powershell you are using.

Thanks

[Aliasgar16]

Hi @jackting73

Please find below the XML response when created VM through knife-azure:

INFO: calling post hostedservices/ali-knife/deployments synchronously 
DEBUG: <?xml version="1.0"?> 
<Deployment xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/windowsazure" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> 
  <Name>ali-knife</Name> 
  <DeploymentSlot>Production</DeploymentSlot> 
  <Label>YWxpLWtuaWZl</Label> 
  <RoleList> 
    <Role i:type="PersistentVMRole"> 
      <RoleName>ali-knife</RoleName> 
      <OsVersion i:nil="true"/> 
      <RoleType>PersistentVMRole</RoleType> 
      <ConfigurationSets> 
  <ConfigurationSet i:type="WindowsProvisioningConfigurationSet"> 
    <ConfigurationSetType>WindowsProvisioningConfiguration</ConfigurationSetType> 
    <ComputerName>ali-knife</ComputerName> 
    <AdminPassword>****</AdminPassword> 
    <ResetPasswordOnFirstLogon>false</ResetPasswordOnFirstLogon> 
    <EnableAutomaticUpdates>false</EnableAutomaticUpdates> 
    <AdminUsername>azure</AdminUsername> 
  </ConfigurationSet> 
  <ConfigurationSet i:type="NetworkConfigurationSet"> 
    <ConfigurationSetType>NetworkConfiguration</ConfigurationSetType> 
    <InputEndpoints/> 
  </ConfigurationSet> 
</ConfigurationSets> 
      <ResourceExtensionReferences> 
  <ResourceExtensionReference> 
    <ReferenceName>ChefClient</ReferenceName> 
    <Publisher>Chef.Bootstrap.WindowsAzure</Publisher> 
    <Name>ChefClient</Name> 
    <Version>1210.12</Version> 
    <ResourceExtensionParameterValues> 
      <ResourceExtensionParameterValue> 
        <Key>PublicParams</Key> 
        <Value>****</Value> 
        <Type>Public</Type> 
      </ResourceExtensionParameterValue> 
      <ResourceExtensionParameterValue> 
        <Key>PrivateParams</Key> 
        <Value>****</Value> 
        <Type>Private</Type> 
      </ResourceExtensionParameterValue> 
    </ResourceExtensionParameterValues> 
    <State>Enable</State> 
  </ResourceExtensionReference> 
</ResourceExtensionReferences> 
      <Label>YWxpLWtuaWZl</Label> 
      <OSVirtualHardDisk> 
  <DiskName>disk_1bc09bb7-246c-4f3c-a6a5-ca2cf32e6704</DiskName> 
  <MediaLink>http://aliknifekprdecgkbl.blob.core.windows.net/vhds/disk_1bc09bb7-246c-4f3c-a6a5-ca2cf32e6704.vhd</MediaLink> 
  <SourceImageName>bd507d3a70934695bc2128e3e5a255ba__RightImage-Windows-2012R2-x64-v14.2</SourceImageName> 
</OSVirtualHardDisk> 
      <RoleSize>Small</RoleSize> 
      <ProvisionGuestAgent>true</ProvisionGuestAgent> 
    </Role> 
  </RoleList> 
</Deployment>

Thanks

[Vasu1105]

@jackting73 re-open if you are still facing this issue.