Add Reserved IP to Azure Cloud Service

Question

I have a cloud service in Azure that I want to give a reserved IP to. I basically followed the steps here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-networks-reserved-public-ip/

I performed the "New-AzureReservedIP" cmd, giving an ip name of "MyIPName" and a location of the East US - the same location of my current cloud service.

In my service config, I used the following:

    <NetworkConfiguration>
        <AddressAssignments>
        <ReservedIPs>
        <ReservedIP name="MyIPName"/>
      </ReservedIPs>
    </AddressAssignments>
  </NetworkConfiguration>

When I attempted to deploy my cloud service, I got the error "The Reserved IP MyIPName does not exist. Although I just created it, its not recognizing my aptly named reserved ip address. Thoughts?

Alistair Alistair · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-29T03:23:23

I just had the same problem after creating a Reserved IP through the Azure Portal. The answer from June 2015 did not work for me. For me the solution was to use Powershell to connect to the Azure subscription and then get the FULL name of the Reserved IP and use it in the service config. The full name of my Reserved IP was in the format "Group {Resource Name} {Reserved IP Name}".

Publishing from Visual Studio 2013 then worked.

To confirm that this wasn't a timing issue I then tried again using only the {Reserved IP Name} value and found that it still did not work (ie received Error: The Reserved IP xyz does not exist.). Hence it would seem that the full Reserved IP name must be used when it has been created from the Azure Portal and then publishing from Visual Studio.

Note: I am using a Classic app service.

Add Reserved IP to Azure Cloud Service

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