Nested template inline with resource copy

[KacperMucha]

There is a NestedTemplateInline.json template which can be used also for cross resource group deployments in your repo. It even has a copyIndex() usage example, but it uses property copy iteration.

I have a template in which I want to do cross resource group deployment and inside the inline template I moved resources that were deployed using resource iteration method (earlier they were in root template and deployment worked), but when I try to deploy it I get error message - "...Microsoft.Resources/deployments... The template function 'copyIndex' is not expected at this location. The function can only be used in a resource with copy specified." Is it a bug or by design? Because it looks like only property copy syntax is allowed in nested inline template. But I have some resources and a bunch of alerts configured inside the nested template, so I can't use property iteration syntax.

[KacperMucha]

I've found another strange issue. ListKeys function also seems to not work in nested template. For example, Azure Function default template contains this code:

{
    "name": "AzureWebJobsDashboard",
    "value": "[concat('DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=',parameters('storageName'),';AccountKey=',listKeys(resourceId('Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts', parameters('storageName')), '2015-05-01-preview').key1)]"
},

And it perfectly works in root a template, but in nested template I get an error:
The Resource 'Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/somestorageaccount' under resource group 'RG' was not found.
It looks like dependsOn defined on Function resource is ignored and listKeys tries to execute before storage account is created.

[abhi1509]

did you find an answer/workaround to this ?

[KacperMucha]

Yeah, I stopped using nested inline templates.

[wahidsaleemi]

Having the same problem myself.

[rkuehfus]

This still seems to be an issue using even the latest API - 2018-05-01

[tyconsulting]

I worked around the issue by looping outside of the nested template

[tapasudenia]

Did you find any workaround to this? I have this piece of resource which I want to iterate couple of times
The code below is part of the master template, I use the template link (citrix-connector-vm.json) which, actually creates a VM
{
"name": "[concat('CreateConnector',copyIndex(),uniqueString(resourceGroup().id))]",
"type": "Microsoft.Resources/deployments",
"apiVersion": "2017-05-10",
"dependsOn": [
"[resourceId('Microsoft.Compute/availabilitySets', variables('connAvailailitySetName'))]"
],
"properties": {
"mode": "Incremental",
"templateLink": {
"uri": "[concat(uri(deployment().properties.templateLink.uri,'citrix-connector-vm.json'),parameters('SasToken'))]",
"contentVersion": "1.0.0.0"
},
"parameters": {
"virtualNetworkName": {
"value": "[parameters('virtualNetworkName')]"
},
"adSubnetName": {
"value": "[parameters('adSubnetName')]"
},
"connAvailabilitySetName": {
"value": "[variables('connAvailailitySetName')]"
},
"connVmName": {
"value": "[concat(variables('connVMName'), copyIndex())]"
},
"connVmIp": {
"value": "10.3.0.7"
},
"connAdminUsername": {
"value": "[parameters('connAdminUsername')]"
},
"connAdminPassword": {
"value": "[parameters('connAdminPassword')]"
},
"connVmSize": {
"value": "[parameters('connVmSize')]"
},
"connDiskType": {
"value": "[parameters('connDiskType')]"
},
"connImageSKU": {
"value": "[parameters('connImageSKU')]"
}
}
},
"copy": {
"name": "CopyConnectorVM",
"count": "[parameters('numberOfConnectors')]",
"mode": "Serial",
"batchSize":1
}
}

[JackStromberg]

Sorry to bump up an older topic, but I can repro this issue with the copy function and nested templates as well.

[hsubramaniam]

Anything on this yet?