Unable to download deployment content from private github repository URI - azure

Question

I created new GitHub private repository, in that I added ARM templates for Azure key vault. After that I am trying to deploy ARM template from my local machine using PowerShell tool.
This is PowerShell script I used for deploying ARM template into azure.
#Login-AzureRmAccount
#region Parameters
$resourceGroupName='KZEU-ARMTMP-SB-DEV-RGP-01'
$location='eastus'
$parametersUri='E:\Kishore\Kishore GitHub\ARMTemplates\Parameters\StorageAccount.parameters.json'
$templateUri='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xxxxxxx/ARMTemplates/master/Templates/StorageAccount.json?access_token=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
$clientID = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
$key = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx="
#endregion
#region Login into Azure
$SecurePassword = $key | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force
$cred = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential `
-argumentlist $clientID, $SecurePassword
Add-AzureRmAccount -Credential $cred -Tenant "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" - ServicePrincipal
Set-AzureRmContext -SubscriptionID 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
#endregion
#region Check or Create Resource Group
Get-AzureRmResourceGroup -Name $resourceGroupName -ev notPresent -ea 0
if($notPresent){
Write-Host "Failover RG '$resourceGroupName' doesn't exist. Creating a new in $location...." -ForegroundColor Yellow
New-AzureRmResourceGroup -Name $resourceGroupName -Location $location
}else{
Write-Host "Using existing resource group '$resourceGroupName'" -ForegroundColor Yellow;
}
#endregion
#region Validate & Deploy ARM Templates
try{
$templateValidationResult= Test-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName -TemplateFile $templateUri -TemplateParameterFile $parametersUri -Verbose
if($templateValidationResult[0].Code-eq"InvalidTemplateDeployment"){
Write-Host "Failed to validate ARM template"
exit 1
}else{
Write-Host "Successfully completed to validate ARM template"
$deploymentResult= New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment -Name StorageAccount-Deployment -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName -TemplateFile $templateUri -TemplateParameterFile $parametersUri -Verbose
if($deploymentResult.ProvisioningState-eq"Succeeded"){
Write-Host "Successfully completed to deploy ARM template"
}else{
Write-Host "Failed to deploy ARM template"
exit 1
}
}
}
catch{
$ex = $_.Exception | Format-List -Force
Write-Host $ex
}
#endregion
When I run the above PowerShell script, then I am getting the error like
Unable to download deployment content from "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xxxx/demo-in/master/xxxx/keyVault.json"
So, can anyone suggest me how to resolve the above issue?

Answer 1

Your issue is that you can't deploy from a private repo (see doc). What you are trying to do is pass a template URI for Azure to read and it doesn't have permission to read from your private repo. You have a couple options:
Do like the docs say and save the deploy.json to Azure Storage
and protect it with a SAS token.
You can clone your repo locally and
deploy from the local file.