cml runner fails to provision VM on Azure

I used the following as simple “hello world” for cml runner on GitLab Community Edition [14.10.1]:

deploy-runner:
  image: iterativeai/cml:latest
  script:
    - |
      cml runner \
          --cloud=azure \
          --cloud-region=eu-west \
          --cloud-type=s \
          --cloud-spot \
          --labels=cml-vm

train-model:
  needs: [deploy-runner]
  tags:
    - cml-vm
  image: ubuntu:latest
  script:
    - echo "hello"

I set up

• AZURE_CLIENT_ID
• AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET
• AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID
• AZURE_TENANT_ID
• REPO_TOKEN as well as PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN as I found the documentation confusing about this (https://cml.dev/doc/self-hosted-runners?tab=GitLab#personal-access-token)

Unfortunately this results in:

$ cml runner \ # collapsed multi-line command
{"level":"info","message":"Preparing workdir /home/runner..."}
{"level":"info","message":"Deploying cloud runner plan..."}
{"level":"info","message":"Terraform apply..."}
{"level":"error","message":"terraform -chdir='/home/runner' apply -auto-approve\n\t\nTerraform used the selected providers to generate the following execution\nplan. Resource actions are indicated with the following symbols:\n  + create\n\nTerraform will perform the following actions:\n\n  # iterative_cml_runner.runner will be created\n  + resource \"iterative_cml_runner\" \"runner\" {\n      + cloud                = \"azure\"\n      + cml_version          = \"0.15.2\"\n      + docker_volumes       = []\n      + driver               = \"gitlab\"\n      + id                   = (known after apply)\n      + idle_timeout         = 300\n      + instance_hdd_size    = 35\n      + instance_ip          = (known after apply)\n      + instance_launch_time = (known after apply)\n      + instance_type        = \"s\"\n      + labels               = \"cml-vm\"\n      + name                 = \"cml-elde6fnyv0\"\n      + region               = \"eu-west\"\n      + repo                 = \"https://git.eon-cds.de/F18771/cml-runner-blobfuse\"\n      + single               = false\n      + spot                 = true\n      + spot_price           = -1\n      + ssh_public           = (known after apply)\n      + token                = (sensitive value)\n    }\n\nPlan: 1 to add, 0 to change, 0 to destroy.\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Creating...\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [10s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [20s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [30s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [40s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [50s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [1m0s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [1m10s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [1m20s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [1m30s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [1m40s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [1m50s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [2m0s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [2m10s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [2m20s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [2m30s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [2m40s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [2m50s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [3m0s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [3m10s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [3m20s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [3m30s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [3m40s elapsed]\n\n\t╷\n│ Error: Failed creating the machine: azure.BearerAuthorizer#WithAuthorization: Failed to refresh the Token for request to https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/358ccc6d-ab83-4b18-a484-e992f284b7cc/resourcegroups/iterative-37d31qzqeb13b?api-version=2020-06-01: StatusCode=404 -- Original Error: adal: Refresh request failed. Status Code = '404'. Response body: <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"iso-8859-1\"?>\n│ <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN\"\n│ \t\t \"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd\">\n│ <html xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\" xml:lang=\"en\" lang=\"en\">\n│  <head>\n│   <title>404 - Not Found</title>\n│  </head>\n│  <body>\n│   <h1>404 - Not Found</h1>\n│  </body>\n│ </html>\n│  Endpoint http://169.254.169.254/metadata/identity/oauth2/token?api-version=2018-02-01&client_id=[MASKED]&resource=https%3A%2F%2Fmanagement.azure.com%2F\n│ \n│   with iterative_cml_runner.runner,\n│   on main.tf line 8, in resource \"iterative_cml_runner\" \"runner\":\n│    8: resource \"iterative_cml_runner\" \"runner\" {\n│ \n╵\n","stack":"Error: terraform -chdir='/home/runner' apply -auto-approve\n\t\nTerraform used the selected providers to generate the following execution\nplan. Resource actions are indicated with the following symbols:\n  + create\n\nTerraform will perform the following actions:\n\n  # iterative_cml_runner.runner will be created\n  + resource \"iterative_cml_runner\" \"runner\" {\n      + cloud                = \"azure\"\n      + cml_version          = \"0.15.2\"\n      + docker_volumes       = []\n      + driver               = \"gitlab\"\n      + id                   = (known after apply)\n      + idle_timeout         = 300\n      + instance_hdd_size    = 35\n      + instance_ip          = (known after apply)\n      + instance_launch_time = (known after apply)\n      + instance_type        = \"s\"\n      + labels               = \"cml-vm\"\n      + name                 = \"cml-elde6fnyv0\"\n      + region               = \"eu-west\"\n      + repo                 = \"https://git.eon-cds.de/F18771/cml-runner-blobfuse\"\n      + single               = false\n      + spot                 = true\n      + spot_price           = -1\n      + ssh_public           = (known after apply)\n      + token                = (sensitive value)\n    }\n\nPlan: 1 to add, 0 to change, 0 to destroy.\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Creating...\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [10s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [20s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [30s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [40s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [50s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [1m0s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [1m10s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [1m20s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [1m30s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [1m40s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [1m50s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [2m0s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [2m10s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [2m20s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [2m30s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [2m40s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [2m50s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [3m0s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [3m10s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [3m20s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [3m30s elapsed]\niterative_cml_runner.runner: Still creating... [3m40s elapsed]\n\n\t╷\n│ Error: Failed creating the machine: azure.BearerAuthorizer#WithAuthorization: Failed to refresh the Token for request to https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/358ccc6d-ab83-4b18-a484-e992f284b7cc/resourcegroups/iterative-37d31qzqeb13b?api-version=2020-06-01: StatusCode=404 -- Original Error: adal: Refresh request failed. Status Code = '404'. Response body: <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"iso-8859-1\"?>\n│ <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN\"\n│ \t\t \"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd\">\n│ <html xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\" xml:lang=\"en\" lang=\"en\">\n│  <head>\n│   <title>404 - Not Found</title>\n│  </head>\n│  <body>\n│   <h1>404 - Not Found</h1>\n│  </body>\n│ </html>\n│  Endpoint http://169.254.169.254/metadata/identity/oauth2/token?api-version=2018-02-01&client_id=[MASKED]&resource=https%3A%2F%2Fmanagement.azure.com%2F\n│ \n│   with iterative_cml_runner.runner,\n│   on main.tf line 8, in resource \"iterative_cml_runner\" \"runner\":\n│    8: resource \"iterative_cml_runner\" \"runner\" {\n│ \n╵\n\n    at /usr/lib/node_modules/@dvcorg/cml/src/utils.js:20:27\n    at ChildProcess.exithandler (node:child_process:406:5)\n    at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:527:28)\n    at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1092:16)\n    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:302:5)","status":"terminated"}
{"level":"info","message":"waiting 10 seconds before exiting..."}

I and my team could not understand what the problem is.

Additional info:

• I tried to use cml also with the iterativeai/cml:0-dvc2-base1 docker image
• I tried to use Azure specific type and region, but no success

Any help would be very much appreciated.

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Is this new option for GCP and AWS only? no Azure?

Yes, still not supported on Azure, but please upvote & consider watching the following issues:

• https://github.com/iterative/terraform-provider-iterative/issues/235
• https://github.com/iterative/terraform-provider-iterative/issues/559

Note that --cloud-permission-set is not related to your issue, though: it’s just to use managed identities inside your workflows.

[0x2b3bfa0]

@iterative/cml, any objections to <kbd>wontfix</kbd> for now?