Add Support for Microsoft Azure Linux VMs (packages-microsoft-com-prod)

[JorgeYHNZ]

Microsoft Azure VM using the CPANEL image from the marketplace.

• 2023-04-14 03:02:42 [ERROR] 2 package(s) installed from unsupported YUM repo ' openlogic' from /etc/yum.repos.d/OpenLogic.repo

• 2023-04-14 03:02:42 [ERROR] 5 package(s) installed from unsupported YUM repo ' packages-microsoft-com-prod' from /etc/yum.repos.d/microsoft-prod.repo

• 2023-04-14 03:02:42 [ERROR] 5 package(s) installed from unsupported YUM repo ' packages-microsoft-com-prod' from /etc/yum.repos.d/prod.repo

• 2023-04-14 03:02:42 [WARN] *** Elevation Blocker detected: ***
  One or more enabled YUM repo are currently unsupported and have installed pack ages.
  You should disable these repositories and remove packages installed from them
  before continuing the update.

  Consider reporting this limitation to https://github.com/cpanel/elevate/issues

[atoomic]

Thanks for reporting this issue.

For now in order to perform the elevate, we suggest to capture and remove the packages from these unsupported repo, then reinstall them once the elevation process is finished.

sincerely

[JorgeYHNZ]

Hello Nicolas, There is a stopper on the way. The packages are required by Microsoft Azure Linux VM's. So If I remove them I will lose control over the VM's. Cheers Jorge

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[atoomic]

Thanks @JorgeYHNZ that makes sense, we need to test before considering adding support for Microsoft Azure.
I've updated the request title to add support for Azure.
thanks

[JorgeYHNZ]

Thank you for your response. Cheers Jorge

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On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 2:46 AM ℕicolas ℝ. ***@***.***> wrote: Thanks @JorgeYHNZ <https://github.com/JorgeYHNZ> that makes sense, we need to test before considering adding support for Microsoft Azure. I've updated the request title to add support for Azure. thanks — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#234 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AUMS5HVSB2AV5G7VIV36GHDXB2SNNANCNFSM6AAAAAAXASZVXQ> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[gprobst]

Please pardon my github ignorance, as I'm rather lost here, but does the removal of the "ready for work" tag indicate that this is something that is not resolvable?

I'm also on an Azure VM and getting the error about openlogic being unsupported.

[da40]

I'm in the same boat as gprobst. Does Elevate work on an Azure VM with Centos 7? Thanks.

[toddr]

We block based on the presence of this repo at this time. The problem is that we cannot guarantee the state of the Azure packages-microsoft-com-prod repo. It is on our backlog to review this repo and provide support for it but it is not on the current short list.

What is on our short list is a better FAQ on how to handle unsupported repos manually. The short answer is that if you remove the rpms provided by that repo, elevate, and then re-install them from the AlmaLinux 8 supported repo (assuming there is one), then you can get past this.

⚠️ WARNING: removal and re-install of RPMs may lead to data loss!!!

[toddr]

For reference: RE-158

[da40]

This document implies that Azure Linux VM Agent (waagent) is essential for VMs running linux:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/extensions/agent-linux

However, it states that it has been tested for compatibility with Alma Linux 9.x, Rocky Linux 9.x and CentOs 8.x. Hopefully, that means that if the OpenLogic repo hosting it is supported by Elevate, an upgrade should succeed.