I have followed the tutorials for building a .net core web application into a docker image, publishing to an azure container registry, and then I have setup my VSTS Release template to deploy the container to the app service.
This all appears to work, I can view my image in the container registry, and the deployment appears to succeed - but when navigating to the app service site, all I get is an HTTP 503 - Service unavailable.
The app service is started, I can see deployments in my file system via bash - so I wondered if I am missing something?
I do not have a 'startup' command in any of my templates, I wondered if it could be this?
The site works perfectly from VS2017, including debugging via docker, so it really is just a case of... how do I get the App Service to actually load and execute the image?
Thank you!
EDIT
Further to this, I have got access to the docker diagnostics logs which claim "image operating system "windows" cannot be used on this platform".
My base image is the microsoft/aspnetcore:2.0 image, which runs perfectly fine on my linux container in my development environment... but appears to not work in the Linux App Service?
Is the aspnetcore:2.0 base image not suitable for a linux app service?
I ended up resolving this week, hopefully the answer will help others.
When using VSTS Hosted build agents to produce images running off the docker base microsoft/aspnetcore:latest - unless you use the (Linux Preview) hosted build agent, you will get produced a windows container, which will not run on the linux app services.
Once I switched to using the hosted linux build agent, the container successfully loads, and my issue is resolved.
Another solution for the same error message:
Try microsoft/aspnetcore (without the tag/version :2.0) as image. If that doesn't work, check the docker logs as mentioned above and look for a solution based on the exact error (usually a missing dependency).
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We have a Restify API running in Azure App Service on Linux for a while now. Suddenly this app (both test and prod, they run as seperate apps) stopped working. Based on the logs the error is related to a package we are using node-highcharts-exporting which is dependent on PhantomJS. App Service is using Node 8.1.
We tried re-deploying the code, upgrading node version to 8.12 (do not want to use latest version with out testing) but still no luck.
Deployment Logs: (This part is successful. This is just for reference)
Container logs: (Startup fails here)
Tried to replicate the same environment on-prem and everything works fine. Created a new App Service which is also running into same issue. Any help is much appreciated.
Update 1:
I think I figured out what is happening. This is related to font libraries on linux https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues/10904
I need to install libfontconfig but this is not supported on Azure App Service.
Yes, it is due to sandbox restriction on a App Service. Just to highlight, the standard/native Azure Web Apps run in a secure environment called a sandbox. Each app runs inside its own sandbox, isolating its execution from other instances on the same machine as well as providing an additional degree of security and privacy which would otherwise not be available.
Not supported scenarios on standard App Service - PhantomJS (/Selenium): tries to connect to local address, and also uses GDI+.Known issue for all PDF generators based on wkhtmltopdf or phantomjs: custom fonts are not rendered (system-installed font is used instead) because of sandbox GDI API limitations.See App Service GitHub sandbox page.
Based on your requirement, however you could use a custom container in App Service (You can use a custom Docker image) that lets you make OS changes that your app needs.
Checkout these document for more details on this topic:
Run a custom Linux container in Azure App Service (You can use a custom Docker image): https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/app-service/containers/quickstart-docker
Run a custom Windows container in Azure (Preview):
https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/app-service/app-service-web-get-started-windows-container
I'm trying Azure App Services. I've set up a build pipeline in Azure DevOps which builds and pushes my image to Docker Hub and then publishes docker-compose.yml as an artifact.
My release pipeline takes the docker-compose.yml and feeds it to the "Azure Web App for Container" task which succeeds. But the bot goes down and doesn't get back up after the deployment unless I access http://<myappname>.azurewebsites.net, then it starts and is of the latest pushed version. So everything seems to work, except the "restart" or docker-compose up.
I've been reading that I want to add a WebJob to my app service, but since I am using a Linux host I cannot seem to configure this. I've tried adding a curl task after deployment, but this probably executes too early.
Any ideas on how I would get to solve this last piece of the puzzle to have a simple CI/CD environment?
Currently there is zero out of the box support for hosting WebJobs in a Linux hosted app service. I've heard there's a hacky way of doing it (I'll have to find the post) but since it's not supported out of the gate, there's no guarantee it'll work.
I want do deploy code to Linux App service plan over FTP but I fail because I am missing a step how to "say to app service to use app DLL instead of default one".
Code is copied, I even uploaded test zip file and I can't download it, getting error 404 so how did Microsoft imagine to deploy code over FTP? I couldn't find any info in their documentation regarding this exact case.
I want to avoid using docker file, If this can't be done I'll simply switch to using Windows based App service plan.
In application setting screen of your WebApp mention the startup file name
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I have pushed a working docker image to Azure Container Registry. I followed this tutorial to deploy it as a web application.
I followed the steps and it created a new web application, but it does not contain any files other than default Azure html that says Your App Service app is up and running. I am trying to figure out what went wrong. I checked the Activity logs and it says nothing. I checked the debug console <my-site>.scm.azurewebsites.net, and it does not contain any of the Docker Image files. How can I check what went wrong during the deployment?
Here is what I did.
I created a docker image, let's just call it my-image.
I checked it is working fine on my local machine.
I created a new tag to push the image to acr, docker tag <my-image_id> my-acr-username.azurecr.io/my-image.
Then I pushed it to acr, docker push my-acr-username.azurecr.io/my-image
I checked the acr repository to verify if it is pushed successfully.
Then I followed the above mentioned tutorial to deploy the image.
P.S. I am using Windows Containers.
I was using Windows Containers, and it turns out that Azure does not have a support for it yet. Unfortunately, it does not give you any errors or warnings if you try to deploy Windows Container. It simply doesn't work, and the user wonders what went wrong...
Here is my issue on their deployment engine Kudu.
I have a created a sample web role application using cloud service. Before hosting my application in cloud, i want to test the application in Dev Fabric. I am sure that when we run the application from VS, it creates an environment that simulates the cloud.
But, if I want to give my application for testing to QA, do I still need to give my source to them and run the application from VS under Dev Fabric or is there any other ways in running my deployed package under Dev Fabric.
In a line, my question is: How do i run my packaged Azure application under Dev Fabric before hosting in Cloud?
Can anyone having an idea, please share me some information?
Thanks for your quick response. CSRun command helped in accoomplishing my requirement. But i can see that it is taking an IP Address, http://127.0.0.1:80/ by default.
Also i am trying to find it out that, is there a way we can change this to a proper name instead of using like an IP?
for ex: http://localhost/ or
with deployed machine name like http://applicationserver/webrole1/ - so that we can access this from any machine in the netwrok.
I went through the Dev Fabric UI, where we can see the curent instances running, but i didnt find any options for these.
Please share me some information on this.
When you run your application locally, a different kind of package gets created (actually a directory) with a .csx extension.
As long as you have that .csx directory and your configuration file (.cscfg), you can run the package by using the "csrun" command. (So no, you don't need Visual Studio.)
You can use this blog post to access azure services running in DevFabric (DF) from other boxes -
http://blog.ehuna.org/2009/10/an_easier_way_to_access_the_wi.html