Cancelling azure resource manager deployment

Question

Recently I've started creating a new resource group but it seems to be stuck at provisioning server farm resource. Restarting deployment outputs the following error:

New-AzureResourceGroup : DeploymentActive: Unable to edit or replace deployment 'App': previous deployment from '8/26/2015 8:48:55 AM' is still active (expiration time is '9/2/2015 8:48:54 AM').

I have no time to wait for its expiration. Is there a way to cancel Azure ARM deployment?

Answer 1

Stop-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment should cancel the deployment and preserve the resourcegroup if you need to go that route.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/azurerm.resources/stop-azurermresourcegroupdeployment

Answer 2

You can use the Remove-AzureResourceGroup cmdlet. It will start deleting the resources and cancel the deployment. However, the best way to avoid waiting for anything is to deploy with a different name, and let the delete run in the background.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn654585.aspx