Azure / Azure/bicep-deploy

Better Error Handling when Bicep installation fails

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Area - Bicep Install Area - Error Handling bug
Dominant language
TypeScript
Stars
64
Forks
20
Avg merge
15h 37m
Merged PRs (30d)
4

Description

Using Azure/bicep-deploy@v2 (thus v2.2.0) on a public GitHub worker failed and crashed the workflow with the foloowing as the only error output:

```text
Error: request to https://downloads.bicep.azure.com/releases/latest failed, reason:
```

I re-ran all jobs and it worked again.

Requests:

* Make this step more resilient.
* Try multiple times.
* Fall back to Bicep installed on the worker if present.
* Don't download Bicep on each step? If running multiple bicep-deploy steps, like validate and then what-if, the actions seems to download Bicep each time.
* Maybe don't randomly generate a dir each time, like `Installed Bicep version 0.35.1 to /tmp/bicep-6j9Ypj/bicep`.
* Or cache the downloaded file?

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start with the Bicep installation step used by Azure/bicep-deploy@v2 and reproduce the intermittent download failure described in the issue. Investigate how repeated steps currently download Bicep and create temporary directories. Done means failed downloads are retried, an existing worker installation can be used, and repeated deployment steps avoid unnecessary downloads.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
azure, github-actions, typescript
Domain
ci-cd, cloud, devops
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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