New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment : A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name '_artifactsLocationSasToken'

Problem

I was trying to deploy new Azure Resource Group using private storage on Azure instead of GitHub (or some other publicly) hosted templates, but run into error when including artifacts.

With the default Deploy-AzureResourceGroup.ps1 (as it comes with Azure SDK, full file can be found, e.g., here), it throws the following error when UploadArtifacts parameter was set to $true.

New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment : A parameter cannot be found that
 matches parameter name '_artifactsLocationSasToken'.

Same occurred if I execute Deploy-AzureResourceGroup.ps1 via PowerShell ISE or did Deploy via Visual Studio.

At the end of Deploy-AzureResourceGroup.ps1, there is call to Deploy-AzureResourceGroup.ps1 like this:

New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment -Name ((Get-ChildItem $TemplateFile).BaseName + '-' + 
((Get-Date).ToUniversalTime()).ToString('MMdd-HHmm')) `
                                   -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroupName `
                                   -TemplateFile $TemplateFile `
                                   -TemplateParameterFile $TemplateParametersFile `
                                   @OptionalParameters `
                                   -Force -Verbose

@OptionalParameters was correctly populated with HashTable containing values for _artifactsLocation and _artifactsLocationSasToken, but New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment is not accepting them.

 

Solution

Adding the missing parameters to azuredeploy.json solved the original error. What I didn’t know was that (obviously), New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment passes the parameters to the TemplateFile (usually called azuredeploy.json).

"_artifactsLocationSasToken": {
  "type": "string",
  "metadata": {
    "description": ""
  }
},
"_artifactsLocation": {
  "type": "string",
  "metadata": {
    "description": ""
  }
},

Solution 2

One final issue was that I needed to include the _artifactsLocation in the configuration variables of the resources like this to append the SAS Token to the URL so that deployment engine can fetch those from our private Azure Storage Account:

"provisioningPrimaryDCURL": "[concat(parameters('_artifactsLocation')
,'/provisioningPrimaryDomainController.json'
,parameters('_artifactsLocationSasToken'))]",