Azure VM Runtime Team

Azure VM Runtime Team

Category: RunCommand from Azure VM Runtime Team

Using Managed RunCommand in an ARM Template

April 3, 2024 Apr 3, 2024 04/3/24
Joseph Calev
Perhaps one of the largest differences between "Action RunCommand" (internally called RunCommand V1) and "Managed RunCommand" (internally called RunCommand V2) is that Managed RunCommands are ARM resources themselves. That means you can use them in ARM templates. Recently, I needed to issue a RunCommand in an ARM template, so I looked ...

The treatFailureAsDeploymentFailure flag

December 11, 2023 Dec 11, 2023 12/11/23
Joseph Calev
In both VmApplications and RunCommand, we support a property called "treatFailureAsDeploymentFailure". Note that for Managed RunCommand it may not be visible yet in Powershell or CLI, but it is available via ARM. Note that this flag is only available for managed RunCommand. It is not available for action RunCommand. For those unaware, ...

How to determine if your Runcommand script failed

June 16, 2023 Jun 16, 2023 06/16/23
Joseph Calev
Today, we're going to cover what can be a maddening issue in just determining whether your script failed. Let's start with a very simple operation. Open a Powershell window and run the following: This shouldn't be rocket science here. It's very clear that "this is an error" is, in fact, an error. So, with this universal fact determined, ...

Long running RunCommands

March 10, 2023 Mar 10, 2023 03/10/23
Joseph Calev
Recently, there's been a bit of confusion involving long running RunCommands. For reference, the default wait time for RunCommand has been 90 minutes - the same as all other extensions. But what if you have a script that takes longer? Well, we've added a timeoutInSeconds parameter just for that purpose! The only slight problem is ...