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Investigation: Terraform upgrade would not fix Azure state-backend DNS failures (no code changes) - #5178
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[WIP] Fix intermittent deployment failure due to DNS lookup error
Investigation: Terraform upgrade would not fix Azure state-backend DNS failures (no code changes)
Oct 9, 2026
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The DNS gate can accept stale answers and is skipped entirely on recovery reruns.
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What changed in this PR
Introduces a core deployment mitigation for management-storage private-endpoint DNS failures.
Changes:
- Adds a targeted private-endpoint apply and DNS wait.
- Adds mocked deployment-script tests and CI routing.
- Bumps the core version and changelog.
| File | Description |
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core/terraform/mgmt_storage_private_endpoint.sh |
Adds endpoint creation and DNS readiness logic. |
core/terraform/deploy.sh |
Runs the new step before the main apply. |
devops/tests/test_mgmt_storage_private_endpoint.py |
Tests deployment-script paths. |
.github/workflows/build_validation_develop.yml |
Routes script changes through validation. |
core/version.txt |
Bumps core to 0.18.12. |
CHANGELOG.md |
Records the mitigation. |
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| echo "Waiting for ${host} to resolve ${DNS_REQUIRED_SUCCESSES} consecutive times" | ||
| for ((attempt=1; attempt<=DNS_MAX_ATTEMPTS; attempt++)); do | ||
| if answer=$(getent ahosts "${host}" 2>&1) && [[ -n "${answer}" ]]; then |
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| state_addresses=$(terraform state list) | ||
| if grep -qxF "${PE_ADDRESS}" <<< "${state_addresses}"; then | ||
| echo "Management storage private endpoint already in state; skipping targeted apply" | ||
| exit 0 | ||
| fi | ||
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| host=$(state_blob_host) | ||
| echo "$(timestamp) Creating management storage private endpoint before the main core apply" |
| -k "${TRE_ID}" \ | ||
| -l "${LOG_FILE}" \ | ||
| -c "terraform plan --parallelism=25 -out ${PLAN_FILE} && \ | ||
| -c "./mgmt_storage_private_endpoint.sh && \ |
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What is being addressed
Core deployment intermittently fails during
terraform apply. The error isdial tcp: lookup <account>.blob.core.windows.net … no such host, raised while theazurermbackend reads or writes state. The question was whether bumping the pinned Terraform version or the provider would fix it.This PR contains no code changes. The evidence shows that upgrading would not affect the failure.
How is this addressed
Provider version doesn't matter.
backend "azurerm" {}(core/terraform/main.tf) is implemented inside Terraform itself. Thehashicorp/azurermprovider version has no effect on state requests.Newer Terraform releases behave the same. Terraform v1.14.3 (pinned), v1.15.9, v1.16.5 (latest stable) and v1.17.0-rc1 all pin
go-azure-sdk/sdk v0.20250131.1134653andgiovanni v0.28.0. Theinternal/backend/remote-state/azure/*files are identical across these versions apart from the copyright header. None adds its own retry.The SDK skips retries for these errors on purpose. In
sdk/client/client.go, the retry function does not retry errors matchingdial tcpon hosts other thanmanagement.azure.com. Blob storage requests fall into that group. The same logic is on go-azure-sdkmain, so a future Terraform release that picks up a newer SDK would still not retry:Suggested follow-up work (not in this PR):
core/terraform/resource_processor/vmss_porter/main.tf) in an earlier step, rather than in the same apply that uses that storage for state.168.63.129.16and the blob lease state, then re-plan a limited number of times after a delay. No unconditional apply retry and no automatic lease break.hashicorp/terraform(Azure backend retry on DNS errors) orhashicorp/go-azure-sdk.No documentation, CHANGELOG or template version updates are needed.