Using the Azure tools bundled with Octopus Deploy is not recommended. Octopus bundles versions of the Azure Resource Manager Powershell modules (AzureRM) and Azure CLI. These were originally provided as convenience mechanisms for users wanting to run scripts against Azure targets. The versions bundled are now out of date, and we will not be updating them further.
We recommend you configure Octopus Deploy to use your own version of the Azure PowerShell cmdlets.
To determine the versions of the various Azure modules that are present on your worker, add the PowerShell below to an Azure Script Step:
AzureRM Module Versions
Get-Module -ListAvailable -Name Azure*
Az Module Versions
Get-Module -ListAvailable -Name Az*
If you wish to use a different version, you can install the Azure PowerShell modules on your worker, and configure Octopus to use those modules. The procedure to configure Octopus to use the installed modules differs depending on which version you are using:
Octopus 2020.1 or newer
The Azure Script step has an option called “Azure Tools”. Toggle the setting to Use Azure Tools pre-installed on the worker if it is not already selected.
Octopus 2018.5.5 to 2019.13.7
We made this configurable by variables in Octopus 2018.5.5 to be more flexible. Create a variable named OctopusUseBundledAzureModules and set its value to False.
With this value set, Octopus Deploy will not load the bundled Azure PowerShell modules, and PowerShell will automatically load the Azure modules installed on the Octopus Server.
Now Octopus will attempt to load these modules when executing an Azure step, rather than the version bundled with Octopus.
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Page updated on Sunday, January 1, 2023