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[Web Bug] - Azure Quickstart

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
azure, kubernetes
Domain
cloud, documentation

Research direction

Start with the linked Azure provider quickstart at docs.crossplane.io/latest/getting-started/provider-azure/ and compare its setup steps with the reported kubectl describe output. Verify the documented prerequisites around the missing az executable; the work is done when the guide explains the required setup or prevents this error for a new user.

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Description

After creating the crossplane-quickstart-network by following the quickstart guide, I got an error. Do you know how to fix it?

$ kubectl describe virtualnetwork.network crossplane-quickstart-network

["az": executable file not found in $PATH](exec: "az": executable file not found in $PATH)

Below is the detailed logs:

$ kubectl describe virtualnetwork.network crossplane-quickstart-network
Name:         crossplane-quickstart-network
Namespace:    
Labels:       <none>
Annotations:  crossplane.io/external-name: crossplane-quickstart-network
API Version:  network.azure.upbound.io/v1beta2
Kind:         VirtualNetwork
Metadata:
  Creation Timestamp:  2024-12-11T19:16:33Z
  Generation:          2
  Resource Version:    565105
  UID:                 3a15ad19-6296-4cbb-ad0f-27888ddc2778
Spec:
  Deletion Policy:  Delete
  For Provider:
    Address Space:
      10.0.0.0/16
    Location:             EastUS
    Resource Group Name:  tzhang-rg
  Init Provider:
  Management Policies:
    *
  Provider Config Ref:
    Name:  default
Status:
  At Provider:
  Conditions:
    Last Transition Time:  2024-12-11T19:16:33Z
    Message:               connect failed: cannot initialize the Terraform plugin SDK async external client: cannot get terraform setup: failed to configure the no-fork Azure client: failed to configure the provider: [{0 unable to build authorizer for Resource Manager API: could not configure AzureCli Authorizer: could not parse Azure CLI version: launching Azure CLI: exec: "az": executable file not found in $PATH  []}]
    Reason:                ReconcileError
    Status:                False
    Type:                  Synced
Events:
  Type     Reason                   Age                From                                                           Message
  ----     ------                   ----               ----                                                           -------
  Warning  CannotConnectToProvider  22s (x6 over 51s)  managed/network.azure.upbound.io/v1beta1, kind=virtualnetwork  cannot initialize the Terraform plugin SDK async external client: cannot get terraform setup: failed to configure the no-fork Azure client: failed to configure the provider: [{0 unable to build authorizer for Resource Manager API: could not configure AzureCli Authorizer: could not parse Azure CLI version: launching Azure CLI: exec: "az": executable file not found in $PATH  []}]

URL: https://docs.crossplane.io/latest/getting-started/provider-azure/

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