“Cannot find Web space” error when provisioning web app using Azure Resource Manager

Question

I am trying to provision some resources on Azure using the Azure Resource Manager with a template I have put together; I am provisioning several web apps with independent Service Plans concurrently. Of course each web app resource "dependsOn" its Service plan.

Everyone once in a while when I deploy using Powershell I get the following error:

New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment : 4:21:22 PM - Resource Microsoft.Web/serverfarms 'ServicePlanA' failed with message 'Cannot find Web space ExampleResourceGroup-AustraliaEastwebspace for subscription ...'

This fails randomly on one or more of the Service Plans.

I also found this GitHub issue, but since I am not using the CLI I couldn't see how this would help https://github.com/Azure/azure-xplat-cli/issues/1646

I also have the latest AzureRM packages from https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/AzureRM/

The API version I am using is "2015-08-01", and the schema of the deployment template is https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2015-01-01/deploymentTemplate.json#

Here is a segment from the template that creates the mentioned resources:

{
            "name": "[variables('WebFrontServicePlanAName')]",
            "type": "Microsoft.Web/serverfarms",
            "location": "[parameters('DataCenterALocation')]",
            "apiVersion": "2015-08-01",
            "dependsOn": [ ],
            "tags": {
                "displayName": "WebFrontServicePlanA"
            },
            "sku": {
                "name": "[parameters('WebFrontServicePlanSKU')]"

            },
            "properties": {
                "name": "[variables('WebFrontServicePlanAName')]",
                "workerSize": "[parameters('WebFrontServicePlanAWorkerSize')]",
                "numberOfWorkers": 1
            }
        },
          ....


          {
            "name": "[variables('webAppName')]",
            "type": "Microsoft.Web/sites",
            "location": "[parameters('DataCenterALocation')]",
            "apiVersion": "2015-08-01",
            "dependsOn": [
                "[concat('Microsoft.Web/serverfarms/', variables('WebFrontServicePlanAName'))]"
            ],
            "tags": {
                "[concat('hidden-related:', resourceGroup().id, '/providers/Microsoft.Web/serverfarms/', variables('WebFrontServicePlanAName'))]": "Resource",
                "displayName": "webApp"
            },
            "properties": {
                "name": "[variables('webAppName')]",
                "serverFarmId": "[resourceId('Microsoft.Web/serverfarms/', variables('WebFrontServicePlanAName'))]"
            },

        }

So, we hit this problem today and I believe it’s something to do with Australia south east region, we changed the region and didn’t face the issue. Have you setup your RG in Australia south east region? — Yaser

theadriangreen theadriangreen · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-05T19:14:16

Do you already have an existing resource group that you're deploying to? If not try using the cmdlet New-AzureRmResourceGroupinstead of New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment.

In Azure Web Apps, resource groups are backed by webspaces. Thus a resource group may contain multiple webspaces each in a different geo region. If you don't have the resource group, and you're not creating it, then you wouldn't have the corresponding webspace, which would cause the error you're seeing.

“Cannot find Web space” error when provisioning web app using Azure Resource Manager

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