Error: Az CLI Login failed. Please check the credentials and make sure az is installed on the runner.

Hi, I also commented on a closed issue https://github.com/Azure/login/issues/203. This issue is not fixed for me in @1.4.3 (and not working with @v1 reference either). Error is exactly the same as in the first message.

1. Credentials are for sure working fine, executed az login --service-principal -u <xx> --tenant <xx> -p <xx> postfixed with az account set --subscription <xx> locally using the same creds which is in my repo secrets, cli login performed successfully
2. Attaching debug logs of workflow execution here (the main point was to find out az cli version for local comparison) azure-cli-workflow-run.txt

Please advise! Thanks

[alexanderdavide]

For me, the problem was that I was testing locally with act which doesn’t have the Azure CLI installed as opposed to Ubuntu based GitHub Shared Runners. In such cases, simply install Azure CLI beforehand.

[roalexan]

FWIW, I hit the same problem and struggled through it, following various bits and pieces of what I read in this bug and this one as well. The root cause for me was that the JSON that you paste into the GitHub “repository secret” MUST have the keys exactly as shown:

{ “clientId”: “AAA”, “clientSecret”: “BBB”, “tenantId”: “CCC”, “subscriptionId”: “DDD” }

not sure if the order matters (probably not), but originally the output of the service principal that I created had a different set of keys - e.g.:

{ “appId”: “AAA”, “name”: “BBB”, “password”: “CCC”, “tenant”: “DDD” }

so, I “transformed” the JSON - removed “name”, added “subscriptionId”, and changed the names of the other three keys - and it is working for me now.