Github Actions deployment to Azure stuck to Package deployment using ZIP Deploy initiated

[jeffordray92]

When I was trying to deploy on Azure Function App, the deployment on Github Actions seems to be freezing on Package deployment using ZIP Deploy initiated. This goes on for hours, without any success response, hence we are left with no choice but to cancel the operation.

But, when I checked on Azure deployment logs, it seems to be deployed successfully.

What could be the reason for this, and how should we fix it?

[fabiomaistro]

Thanks @jeffordray92 for reporting this. There is a trail of people (me included) reporting the same issue here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1261639/github-actions-deployment-stuck-to-package-deploym

[github-actions]

This issue is idle because it has been open for 14 days with no activity.

[TTWill]

I can confirm, it is a huge issue, both deploying dotnet core web app and Azure Functions (both Linux). For some reason, Azure functions take ~5 minutes while web app takes up to several hours., logs show no apparent reason. But when deploying web app from Visual Studio, it takes seconds, not even minutes. All deployments seem to be related to ZIP Packaging and using Kudu service.

**Update: 7/6/23 **
Reverting the webdeploy to v1 (rather than v2) seems to shorten the time significantly, although deployment randomly fails 1 out of 4 times. Increasing Service Plan from B1 to S1 did not help. For debugging, it would be very helpful with more information on, what is causing the problem - attempting to abort the deployment will not help, instead an error will return that a deployment is already in progress, (obviously the use of cancelTokens has not been utilized correctly ?).

[sheeeng]

I have experienced the same issue. Logs are listed below.

Run azure/functions-action@v1
  
Successfully parsed SCM credential from publish-profile format.
Using SCM credential for authentication, GitHub Action will not perform resource validation.
(node:1725) [DEP0005] DeprecationWarning: Buffer() is deprecated due to security and usability issues. Please use the Buffer.alloc(), Buffer.allocUnsafe(), or Buffer.from() methods instead.
(Use `node --trace-deprecation ...` to show where the warning was created)
Successfully acquired app settings from function app (with SCM credential)!
Will archive ./function into /home/runner/work/_temp/temp_web_package_19174212886521258.zip as function app content
Will use Kudu https://<scmsite>/api/zipdeploy to deploy since publish-profile is detected.
Setting SCM_DO_BUILD_DURING_DEPLOYMENT in Kudu container to false
Update using context.kuduService.updateAppSettingViaKudu
Response with status code 204
App setting SCM_DO_BUILD_DURING_DEPLOYMENT propagated to Kudu container
Setting ENABLE_ORYX_BUILD in Kudu container to false
Update using context.kuduService.updateAppSettingViaKudu
Response with status code 204
App setting ENABLE_ORYX_BUILD propagated to Kudu container
Package deployment using ZIP Deploy initiated.

[sheeeng]

It works now, where it fails multiple times about 20 hours ago.

The entire process took less than one minute to complete when it works.

Run azure/functions-action@v1
Successfully parsed SCM credential from publish-profile format.
Using SCM credential for authentication, GitHub Action will not perform resource validation.
(node:1670) [DEP0005] DeprecationWarning: Buffer() is deprecated due to security and usability issues. Please use the Buffer.alloc(), Buffer.allocUnsafe(), or Buffer.from() methods instead.
(Use `node --trace-deprecation ...` to show where the warning was created)
Successfully acquired app settings from function app (with SCM credential)!
Will archive ./function into /home/runner/work/_temp/temp_web_package_9794794788908359.zip as function app content
Will use Kudu https://<scmsite>/api/zipdeploy to deploy since publish-profile is detected.
Setting SCM_DO_BUILD_DURING_DEPLOYMENT in Kudu container to false
Update using context.kuduService.updateAppSettingViaKudu
Response with status code 204
App setting SCM_DO_BUILD_DURING_DEPLOYMENT propagated to Kudu container
Setting ENABLE_ORYX_BUILD in Kudu container to false
Update using context.kuduService.updateAppSettingViaKudu
Response with status code 204
App setting ENABLE_ORYX_BUILD propagated to Kudu container
Package deployment using ZIP Deploy initiated.
Deploy logs can be viewed at https://00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000.scm.azurewebsites.net/api/deployments/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/log
Successfully deployed web package to App Service.
Restoring SCM_DO_BUILD_DURING_DEPLOYMENT in Kudu container to false
Response with status code 204
Restoring ENABLE_ORYX_BUILD in Kudu container to false
Response with status code 204

[github-actions]

This issue is idle because it has been open for 14 days with no activity.

This is still an issue, it keeps on hanging, the deployment happens, but there is not termination feedback for the pipeline, but what is interesting is that if you terminate the function app via terraform and re-create it, it works fine initially, I thought that Config vars are making this behave in a weird way, but no.

It hangs like this:

##[debug][GET] https://***.scm.azurewebsites.net:443/api/deployments/latest?deployer=GITHUB_ZIP_DEPLOY_FUNCTIONS_V1&time=2023-07-03_12-46-09Z ##[debug]POLL URL RESULT: ***"statusCode":202,"statusMessage":"Accepted","headers":***"content-length":"695","connection":"close","content-type":"application/json; charset=utf-8","date":"Mon, 03 Jul 2023 13:00:31 GMT","server":"Kestrel","location":"https://***.scm.azurewebsites.net:443/api/deployments/latest?deployer=GITHUB_ZIP_DEPLOY_FUNCTIONS_V1&time=2023-07-03_12-46-09Z"***,"body":***"id":"cdd0ef27-1cc1-4c42-bdeb-fff3b2edcc0b","status":0,"status_text":"Building and Deploying 'cdd0ef27-1cc1-4c42-bdeb-fff3b2edcc0b'.","author_email":"N/A","author":"N/A","deployer":"GITHUB_ZIP_DEPLOY_FUNCTIONS_V1","message":"***\"type\":\"deployment\",\"sha\":\"27b3597e8c7f3a8242b9ca3cceb66284a22111bd\",\"repoName\":\"******/pms-***-az\",\"actor\":\"ne******\",\"slotName\":\"production\"***","progress":"Number of uids 1","received_time":"2023-06-29T09:25:44.2061665Z","start_time":"2023-06-29T09:25:47.4543441Z","end_time":null,"last_success_end_time":null,"complete":false,"active":false,"is_temp":false,"is_reado... ##[debug]Deployment status: 0 'Building and Deploying 'cdd0ef27-1cc1-4c42-bdeb-fff3b2edcc0b'.'. retry after 5 seconds

[github-actions]

This issue is idle because it has been open for 14 days with no activity.