Azure devops deployment failure : TypeError: Cannot read property 'scmUri' of undefined

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I have been facing this issue particularly today while deploying my application to the azure environment using Azure Devops.

One of the deployment task fails with the following eror message:

##[debug]Deployment Failed with Error: TypeError: Cannot read property 'scmUri' of undefined

When I retry to deploy a couple of times it succeeds and deployment is successfully done.

What is the issue causing this error?

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azureazure-devopsazure-pipelines-release-pipelineazure-deployment
We are seeing the exact same error today for the first time... Maybe there is a technical issue with Azure DevOps today? – Kjensen
@Kjensen Then it should be from azure devops definitely. i was wondering since it worked for the same tasks in another environment – Sajeetharan
We're escalating to MS - seems to be their end. – wally
we've seen the issue for a few days. It's non-deterministic -- sometimes it works. – Stand__Sure
Related issue was raised on Developer Community here: developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/359862/… – Jesse

2 Answers

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Microsoft is aware:

We're investigating Intermittent failures of Release Pipelines in West Europe.

Customer using Azure App Service Deploy task in their Release Pipelines might see intermittent errors like: "##[error]TypeError: Cannot read property 'scmUri' of undefined"

Retrying the release may succeed.

Next Update: Before Wednesday, October 17th 2018 15:50 UTC

Source: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vsoservice/?p=17835.

Hopefully we'll get a response soon.

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The latest report from https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vsoservice/?p=17835:

Final Update: Wednesday, October 17th 2018 20:14 UTC

We’ve confirmed that all systems are back to normal as of 2018/10/17 19:35 UTC. Our logs show the incident started on 2018/10/17 13:42 UTC and that during the 5 hours and 53 minutes that it took to resolve the issue. Customers using Azure App Service Deploy task in their Release Pipelines might see intermittent errors like: "##[error]TypeError: Cannot read property 'scmUri' of undefined". Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

  • Root Cause: Initial diagnosis from the Azure Web Apps team points to issues with a few of their back end nodes sending bad api responses.
  • Chance of Re-occurrence: Medium
  • Lessons Learned: We are working both minimizing resource-intensive activities in our post-deployment steps, and are also working targeting monitors specifically to detect post-deployment issues in the future.
  • Incident Timeline: 5 hours & 23 minutes – 2018/10/17 13:42 UTC through 2018/10/17 19:35 UTC

Sincerely,
Randy