07-deployments-azure-bicep-templates: Pre‑existing Resource Group in Skillable Causes Pipeline Failure

[massimobonanni]

Summary

During the AZ‑400 lab “07‑deployments‑azure‑bicep‑templates.md” (in Skillable environment), the lab subscription has an resource group called AZ400-RG1 in the North Central US region.
This conflicts with the lab instructions and causes the deployment pipeline to fail.

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🔍 Problem Details

1. Resource Group Already Exists

The Skillable environment automatically creates:

• Subscription
• Resource group: AZ400-RG1
• Region: North Central US

However, the lab pipeline (eshoponweb-cd-windows-cm.yml) includes:

az group create ...

This results in:

• ❌ Error: Resource group already exists

If the student removes the az group create step, the pipeline proceeds but fails later because…

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2. VM Size Not Available in North Central US

The VM size required by the lab is not available in the North Central US region.

This leads to:

• ❌ Error: The requested VM size is not available in this region

When the resource group is deleted manually and recreated in a supported region, the lab works correctly.

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✔️ Confirmed Behavior

• If the pre‑created resource group is removed, the pipeline runs successfully.
• The service connection currently scopes to the resource group, but if the RG is not pre‑created, the scope must be the entire subscription (as expected in the lab instructions).

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📌 Expected Behavior

Skillable should not pre‑create the resource group for this lab.
The lab instructions assume the pipeline will create the resource group in a region that supports the required VM size.

[SkillableKarl]

Apologies for the delays - this should be fixed, in most cases due to the nature of the initial creation of the devops org, we generally need to have a named-RG present at lab start. In this case, a small update was made on our side that should allow the VM and its related resources to be deployed to a region other then the one the RG is in, and thus should allow the region identified earlier in the lab that has capacity to succeed.

[petender]

@massimobonanni , can you validate Skillable's solution, so we can close the issue?

[massimobonanni]

@petender I will do ASAP