I'm trying to create a container and push it to Azure Container Registry. I've created a container group and Service Principle, but I can't get docker push to work.
> docker login azure --client-id 12345678-90ab-cdef-1234-567890abcdef --client-secret b1bb1ty~b0pp1ty_b00. --tenant-id 01234567-89ab-cdef-0123-456789abcdef
login succeeded
> docker push myrepo.azurecr.io/my_image
Using default tag: latest
The push refers to repository [myrepo.azurecr.io/my_image]
17e1b7f147c1: Preparing
7497d9224318: Preparing
4f70bf18a087: Preparing
f2a9a0445b79: Preparing
24d83d67379e: Preparing
45c2210a0dee: Waiting
5cb3a39200e1: Waiting
c203d67ebc1d: Waiting
281bff2725de: Waiting
unauthorized: authentication required, visit https://aka.ms/acr/authorization for more information.
The app associated with the Service Principle has the Owner role in the container group, so it should be able to do anything it wants, including pushing images, but I still get the error message above, and the link it contains doesn't say anything particularly useful on the subject. I've enabled diagnostic event logging on the container group, but my attempts generate no diagnostic information.
What more needs to be done before I'm able to successfully push an image to ACR?
I think the problem has to do with how you performed your registry login.
As you can see either in Azure or Docker documentation, your docker login command should look similar to the following:
docker login myrepo.azurecr.io \
--username <your service principal client id> \
--password <your service principal client secret>
I have a azure app service to host a docker image from out Azure Container Registry.
The full process is as follow:
Run Pipeline
Run Release pipeline
Azure app pulls the latest release from azure container registry
But what happen is that after Each realise, for some reason, the app service tries to pull the image from Docker Hubinstead of pulling from azure Container Registry.
Can somebody help to understand where is the issue here?
For your issue, I can guess the problem you made, you must set the image with the tag as, for example, nginx:latest. But if you push the image in the ACR and need to pull it from the ACR, you must set the image with the tag as myacr.azurecr.io/nginx:latest. In addition, you also need to configure the credential for your ACR.
The Container Setting on the App Service it self look solid:
But the log pane shows errors:
2020-02-11 06:31:40.621 ERROR - Image pull failed: Verify docker image configuration and credentials (if using private repository)
2020-02-11 06:31:41.240 INFO - Stoping site app505-dfpg-qa2-web-eastus2-gateway-apsvc because it failed during startup.
2020-02-11 06:36:05.546 INFO - Starting container for site
2020-02-11 06:36:05.551 INFO - docker run -d -p 9621:8081 --name app505-dfpg-qa2-web-eastus2-gateway-apsvc_0_a9c8277e_msiProxy -e WEBSITE_SITE_NAME=app505-dfpg-qa2-web-eastus2-gateway-apsvc -e WEBSITE_AUTH_ENABLED=False -e WEBSITE_ROLE_INSTANCE_ID=0 -e WEBSITE_HOSTNAME=app505-dfpg-qa2-web-eastus2-gateway-apsvc.azurewebsites.net -e WEBSITE_INSTANCE_ID=7d18d5957d129d3dc3a25d7a2c85147ef57f1a6b93910c50eb850417ab59dc56 appsvc/msitokenservice:1904260237
2020-02-11 06:36:05.552 INFO - Logging is not enabled for this container.
Please use https://aka.ms/linux-diagnostics to enable logging to see container logs here.
2020-02-11 06:36:17.766 INFO - Pulling image: a...cr/gateway:1.0.20042.2
2020-02-11 06:36:17.922 ERROR - DockerApiException: Docker API responded with status code=NotFound, response={"message":"pull access denied for a...cr/gateway, repository does not exist or may require 'docker login': denied: requested access to the resource is denied"}
2020-02-11 06:36:17.923 ERROR - Pulling docker image a...cr/gateway:1.0.20042.2 failed:
2020-02-11 06:36:17.923 INFO - Pulling image from Docker hub: a...cr/gateway:1.0.20042.2
2020-02-11 06:36:18.092 ERROR - DockerApiException: Docker API responded with status code=NotFound, response={"message":"pull access denied for a...cr/gateway, repository does not exist or may require 'docker login': denied: requested access to the resource is denied"}
2020-02-11 06:36:18.094 ERROR - Image pull failed: Verify docker image configuration and credentials (if using private repository)
2020-02-11 06:36:19.062 INFO - Stoping site app505-dfpg-qa2-web-eastus2-gateway-apsvc because it failed during startup.
The Service Principal used to deploy the App Service has AcrPush access to the parent resource group of the container registry:
The setting are present:
I did az login with that service principal and then tried az acr login to the registry. It works fine. So what am I missing here?
EDIT 1
I know the credentials are correct, because I tested them like this:
Where I just copied the values from the app service configuration and pasted on the console. docker has no problem logging in.
It must be something else.
EDIT 2
However, I also get this:
C:\Dayforce\fintech [shelve/terraform ≡]> docker pull a...r/gateway
Using default tag: latest
Error response from daemon: pull access denied for a...r/gateway, repository does not exist or may require 'docker login': denied: requested access to the resource is denied
So, I can login, but not pull. Very strange, because the account is configured to have AcrPush access to the container, which includes AcrPull:
EDIT 3
I was able to pull successfully when using the FQDN for the registry:
I updated the pipeline, but I still get the same errors:
2020-02-11 16:03:50.227 ERROR - Pulling docker image a...r.azurecr.io/gateway:1.0.20042.2 failed:
2020-02-11 16:03:50.228 INFO - Pulling image from Docker hub: a...r.azurecr.io/gateway:1.0.20042.2
2020-02-11 16:03:50.266 ERROR - DockerApiException: Docker API responded with status code=InternalServerError, response={"message":"Get https://a...r.azurecr.io/v2/gateway/manifests/1.0.20042.2: unauthorized: authentication required"}
2020-02-11 16:03:50.269 ERROR - Image pull failed: Verify docker image configuration and credentials (if using private repository)
2020-02-11 16:03:50.853 INFO - Stoping site app505-dfpg-qa2-web-eastus2-gateway-apsvc because it failed during startup.
EDIT 4
The only way that I found working was to enable the Admin User on the ACR and pass its credentials in the DOCKER_... variables instead of credentials of the Service Principal.
This is frustrating, I know the Service Principal can login and pull when ran locally, it is a mystery why it does not work for docker running on an App Service Host. We have another team here which faced the same issue and they have not found any solution, but enable the Admin User.
EDIT 5
The entire process runs as part of the Azure DevOps on-prem release pipeline using a dedicated Service Principal. Let me call it Pod Deploy Service Principal or just SP for short.
Let DOCKER_xyz denote the three app settings controlling the docker running on the App Service host:
DOCKER_REGISTRY_SERVER_URL
DOCKER_REGISTRY_SERVER_USERNAME
DOCKER_REGISTRY_SERVER_PASSWORD
I think we need to distinguish two parts here:
App Service needs to talk to the ACR in order to pull from it the details about the image and present them in this GUI - For that to work, the SP must have the AcrPull role in the ACR. Failure to do so results in the GUI presenting a spinning icon for the Image and Tag rows. I stumbled on it before - How to configure an Azure app service to pull images from an ACR with terraform? Now the answer to that question suggests that I have to assign the AcrPull role and set the DOCKER_xyz app settings. I think that the DOCKER_xyz app settings are not for that, but for the second part.
It seems to me that when an App Service is started, the host uses docker to actually pull the right image from the ACR. This part seems to be detached from (1). For it to work, the app settings must have the DOCKER_xyz app settings.
My problem is that part (1) works great, but part (2) does not even if DOCKER_xyz app settings specify the credentials of the SP from part (1). The only way I could make it work if I point DOCKER_xyz at the Admin User of the ACR.
But that why on Earth the DOCKER_xyz app settings cannot point to the pipeline SP, which was good enough for the part (1)?
EDIT 6
The current state of affairs is this. Azure App Service is unable to communicate with an ACR except using ACR admin user and password. So, even if the docker runtime running on the App Service host machine may know how to login using any service principal, the App Service would not use any identity or Service Principal to read metadata from the ACR - only admin user and password. The relevant references are:
https://feedback.azure.com/forums/169385-web-apps/suggestions/36145444-web-app-for-containers-acr-access-requires-admin#%7btoggle_previous_statuses%7d
https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/issues/49186
On a personal note I find it amazing that Microsoft recommends not to use ACR admin user, yet a very core piece of their offering, namely Azure App Service, depends on it being enable. Makes me wonder whether different teams in Microsoft are aware of what others are doing or not doing...
App service started pulling after doing these steps for me. :D
Enable Admin Access in Azure Container Registry
In the App service configuration, provide container registry admin credentials
DOCKER_REGISTRY_SERVER_PASSWORD(admin enabled password),
DOCKER_REGISTRY_SERVER_USERNAME(crxxxxxx),
DOCKER_REGISTRY_SERVER_URL (https://crxxxxxx.azurecr.io)
Go to your app service and select identity section on the left, and click on system assigned - change status to On.
Now go to IAM Control container registry, add ACR pull role to App Service system assigned identity enabled on step 3.
Restart your App Service and wait .Changes will take few minutes to reflect so refresh your logs. (10 minutes or more)
Good luck :)
After a lot of research I figured out a way to resolve this without enabling Admin user
Create an app registration using Azure Active Directory and store the secret somewhere.
Go to the Azure container registry and add role assignment to this newly created app with permissions of AcrPush (which also contains AcrPull).
In the App service configuration, replace the variables .
DOCKER_REGISTRY_SERVER_PASSWORD with Client Secret of app registration which was saved in the first step
DOCKER_REGISTRY_SERVER_USERNAME with client Id of App registration
This should solve the Docker Api exception.
It's baffling that this is not mentioned in any Azure Container Registry documentation. Although I think it is mentioned somewhere in AAD documentation indirectly 😐.
From the message I got of the talk, let me solve your puzzle about the error.
I guess you deploy the image in ACR to the Web App through the Azure portal. When you use the Azure portal to deploy the Web App from the ACR, it only lets you select the ACR and image and tag, but do not let you set the credential. In this way, Azure will set it itself with the admin user and password if you enable the admin user. If you do not enable it, the error you got happens.
And if you want to use the service principal, I recommend you use the other tools, such as Azure CLI. Then you can set the docker registry credential yourself with the command az webapp config container set.
Here is the example and it works fine on my side:
With the Azure CLI, you can follow the steps here.
Update:
Here are the screenshots of the test on my side:
Found the answer by setting "acrUseManagedIdentityCreds" to True. The second command in this comment: https://stackoverflow.com/a/69120462/17430834
Edit 1: Adding the command
Here is the command that you will need to run to make this change.
az resource update --ids /subscriptions/<subscription-id>/resourceGroups/myResourceGroup/providers/Microsoft.Web/sites/<app-name>/config/web --set properties.acrUseManagedIdentityCreds=True
I was trying to do the same from Azure DevOps pipelines and got the same problem.
I didn't find out how to make it work using the ACR name, but it works if you use your_acr_name.azurecr.io instead.
If you go to the Access Keys page of your ACR you will find two values
Registry name: MyCoolRegistry (doesn't work if you use this one)
Login server: mycoolregistry.azurecr.io
The login server is working - just put it as the containerRegistry in your Pipeline without creating a service connection.
Just in case someone is struggling with that one.
Just to add to mark's amazing job of working it all through and for the fast readers: for everything to work, one of course also has to enable the admin user (who by default is disabled). For example by issuing:
az acr update -n <your-azureregistry-name> --admin-enabled true
on the console.
I experienced this same issue when trying to deploy an Docker application to Azure Web Apps for containers.
When I deployed the application I will get the error:
DockerApiException: Docker API responded with status code=NotFound, response={"message":"pull access denied for a..my-repo/image, repository does not exist or may require 'docker login': denied: requested access to the resource is denied"}.
Here's how I solved it:
The issue was that I was not specifying the full path to the image. I was supposed to include my-registry-url in the docker image-name. That is instead of just image-name I was supposed to use my-registry-url/image-name, since I am trying to pull from a private repository.
So say these are variables:
docker image name is promiseapp
docker-registry_url is promisecicdregistry.azurecr.io
resource-group is dockerprojects
app-service-plan is dockerlinuxprojects
azure-web-app name is promiseapptest
docker-registry-user is test-user
docker-registry-password is 12345678
Then my command will be:
az webapp create --resource-group dockerprojects --plan dockerlinuxprojects --name promiseapptest --deployment-container-image-name promisecicdregistry.azurecr.io/promiseapp
az webapp config container set --resource-group dockerprojects --name promiseapptest --docker-custom-image-name promisecicdregistry.azurecr.io/promiseapp --docker-registry-server-url https://promisecicdregistry.azurecr.io --docker-registry-server-user test-user --docker-registry-server-password 12345678
In my case, I fixed the error by using the fully qualified Azure Container Registery name like this:
xwezi.azurecr.io
The previous value was
xwezi
When I deploy manually to App Services, I wouldn't get that error.
But, when I used Azure App Service deploy task to deploy the container to the App Service, the service won't work correctly.
And, the log stream will show the above errors.
Unfortunately, the error messages weren't helpful for me to find this out. But I hope this will save your time :)
I'm currently trying to set up an Azure Web App for Containers, linking it to a Azure Container Registry that lives inside a different subscription. That's why my initial thought was to use the Private Registrytab inside the Web apps Container Settings to enter the credentials of said Registry.
However when I save and reload the page the settings of the Azure Container Registry tab are now populated and the Private Registry tab is empty. The issue is, that I get now get following error:
2020-01-21 21:51:12.951 ERROR - DockerApiException: Docker API responded with status code=NotFound, response={"message":"pull access denied for cliswebapi, repository does not exist or may require 'docker login': denied: requested access to the resource is denied"}
I assume because no password was stored. How do I configure this properly?
While you use the private registry, the Azure Container Registry is also a private registry, and deploy to Web App for Containers, you need to set the environment variables here:
DOCKER_REGISTRY_SERVER_USERNAME - The username for the ACR server.
DOCKER_REGISTRY_SERVER_URL - The full URL to the ACR server. (For example, https://my-server.azurecr.io.)
DOCKER_REGISTRY_SERVER_PASSWORD - The password for the ACR server.
See more details in If you're using Azure Container Registry, you need to set some app settings.
And if you create multiple containers, all the images must be in the same registry. All in Docker Hub or Azure Container Registry. See more details in All images must use the same registry.
Update:
With the message that you deploy the Web App using the image in the ACR in a different subscription. It seems it's a bug in Web App and you can see the issue in the Github. And the suggestion is that maybe you can use the service principal for the ACR to authenticate and the steps here.
I have spend some time on this issue and figured it out. Here is my solution:
Assuming we are having two subscriptions, let's call them SUB-A and SUB-B, where we are having an Azure Container Registry in SUB-A (called azurebluedev in my example).
Now we'd like to create an App Service in SUB-B that pulls its image of our container registry by using the admin username.
It's critical that you use the correct format under Image and tag in the docker blade when creating the app service. It must follow the format url/image:tag (without https) otherwise you will run into the described problem. I was using image:tag format beforehand which didn't work.
This worked for me!
I have an application container pushed to a gitlab container registry. I am trying to deploy it into azure web app service as a container. I did the configuration as best as I could understand based on the documentation from azure. But I don't understand what I am missing because azure logs show azure still trying to connect to docker hub registry.
In the logs I get the following
2019-05-13 09:21:49.741 ERROR - DockerApiException: Docker API responded with status code=InternalServerError, response={"message":"Get https://registry-1.docker.io/v2/library/<image-name>/manifests/latest: unauthorized: incorrect username or password"}
2019-05-13 09:21:49.743 ERROR - Pulling docker image <image-name> failed:
2019-05-13 09:21:49.743 INFO - Pulling image from Docker hub: library/<image-name>
2019-05-13 09:21:50.795 ERROR - DockerApiException: Docker API responded with status code=NotFound, response={"message":"pull access denied for <image-name>, repository does not exist or may require 'docker login'"}
2019-05-13 09:21:50.797 ERROR - Image pull failed: Verify docker image configuration and credentials (if using private repository)
Can anyone tell me what I might be doing wrong here? I believe the problem is the registry url config. Any help would be appreciated.
For anyone else who faces the same problem, my problem was that I was giving only the image name, had to put the full name of the image registry registry.gitlab.com/<group name>/<image name>
Since it took me a while to fiddle that together, this is what helped me most. (Thanks #Hassaan for your answer that pointed me in the right direction)
GitLab
You need to be aware of your container registry located in GitLab.
Check image naming conventions for that.
If you are using GitLab Cloud registry URL is: https://registry.gitlab.com
Once you logged into GitLab check your project and navigate to "Packages & Registries" and click on "Container Registry".
If you already published an image, it will be shown there in the list. What you see there is what I will call "full-image-name".
It'll be most likely <namespace>/<project>/<image-name>.
We need that full-image-name later. Click on that image in that list to get a list of image tags. You will have to selecte a tag to use for later.
If you did not publish an image to that registry yet, check the docs to get started.
Azure Web App
Navigate to your App Service and find "Container settings (Classic)" in the left side menu.
Then simply fill in required data.
Server URL: https://registry.gitlab.com
Full Image Name and Tag: <full-image-name>:<tag> (see above)
If you are not sure what to put into login and password have a look at how to authenticate with the container registry.