Deployment fails randomly: Deployment Failure Reason: Failure during content distribution.

[meziantou]

Describe the bug

The deployment job sometimes fails with the error Deployment Failure Reason: Failure during content distribution. If I retry the GitHub job a few minutes / hours later, it succeeds. It happened a few times this week. The following job succeeds at the 4th attempt.

Run Azure/static-web-apps-deploy@v1
  with:
    azure_static_web_apps_api_token: ***
    repo_token: ***
    action: upload
    app_location: azure-swa
    skip_app_build: true
  env:
    DOTNET_SKIP_FIRST_TIME_EXPERIENCE: 1
    DOTNET_NOLOGO: true
    DOTNET_TieredPGO: 1
    ArtifactStagingDirectory: /home/runner/work/project/project/artifacts
    NodeJSVersion: 16
/usr/bin/docker run --name e2849036e93e424f3b45859a9548680c5990b7_f254ff --label e28490 --workdir /github/workspace --rm -e DOTNET_SKIP_FIRST_TIME_EXPERIENCE -e DOTNET_NOLOGO -e DOTNET_TieredPGO -e ArtifactStagingDirectory -e NodeJSVersion -e INPUT_AZURE_STATIC_WEB_APPS_API_TOKEN -e INPUT_REPO_TOKEN -e INPUT_ACTION -e INPUT_APP_LOCATION -e INPUT_OUTPUT_LOCATION -e INPUT_SKIP_APP_BUILD -e INPUT_API_BUILD_COMMAND -e INPUT_API_LOCATION -e INPUT_APP_ARTIFACT_LOCATION -e INPUT_APP_BUILD_COMMAND -e INPUT_ROUTES_LOCATION -e INPUT_CONFIG_FILE_LOCATION -e HOME -e GITHUB_JOB -e GITHUB_REF -e GITHUB_SHA -e GITHUB_REPOSITORY -e GITHUB_REPOSITORY_OWNER -e GITHUB_RUN_ID -e GITHUB_RUN_NUMBER -e GITHUB_RETENTION_DAYS -e GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT -e GITHUB_ACTOR -e GITHUB_WORKFLOW -e GITHUB_HEAD_REF -e GITHUB_BASE_REF -e GITHUB_EVENT_NAME -e GITHUB_SERVER_URL -e GITHUB_API_URL -e GITHUB_GRAPHQL_URL -e GITHUB_REF_NAME -e GITHUB_REF_PROTECTED -e GITHUB_REF_TYPE -e GITHUB_WORKSPACE -e GITHUB_ACTION -e GITHUB_EVENT_PATH -e GITHUB_ACTION_REPOSITORY -e GITHUB_ACTION_REF -e GITHUB_PATH -e GITHUB_ENV -e RUNNER_OS -e RUNNER_ARCH -e RUNNER_NAME -e RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE -e RUNNER_TEMP -e RUNNER_WORKSPACE -e ACTIONS_RUNTIME_URL -e ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN -e ACTIONS_CACHE_URL -e GITHUB_ACTIONS=true -e CI=true -v "/var/run/docker.sock":"/var/run/docker.sock" -v "/home/runner/work/_temp/_github_home":"/github/home" -v "/home/runner/work/_temp/_github_workflow":"/github/workflow" -v "/home/runner/work/_temp/_runner_file_commands":"/github/file_commands" -v "/home/runner/work/project/project":"/github/workspace" e28490:36e93e424f3b45859a9548680c5990b7
DeploymentId: 18676749-2e13-4bf7-a959-a36c86618d04

App Directory Location: 'azure-swa' was found.
No Api directory specified. Azure Functions will not be created.
Looking for event info
Failed to parse GitHub Event Json (/github/workflow/event.json). Proceeding
Could not get event info. Proceeding
Skipping step to build /github/workspace/azure-swa with Oryx
Using 'staticwebapp.config.json' file for configuration information, 'routes.json' will be ignored.
Either no Api directory was specified, or the specified directory was not found. Azure Functions will not be created.
Zipping App Artifacts
Done Zipping App Artifacts
Uploading build artifacts.
Finished Upload. Polling on deployment.
Status: InProgress. Time: 0.0989484(s)
Status: InProgress. Time: 15.2882766(s)
Status: InProgress. Time: 30.4238533(s)
Status: InProgress. Time: 47.2068267(s)
Status: InProgress. Time: 62.6592872(s)
Status: InProgress. Time: 77.91025(s)
Status: InProgress. Time: 93.2929964(s)
Status: InProgress. Time: 108.4562858(s)
Status: InProgress. Time: 123.6240022(s)
Status: InProgress. Time: 138.8958045(s)
Status: InProgress. Time: 154.0757933(s)
Status: InProgress. Time: 169.1921353(s)
Status: InProgress. Time: 184.3383472(s)
Status: InProgress. Time: 199.4665996(s)
Status: Failed. Time: 214.5293545(s)
Deployment Failed :(
Deployment Failure Reason: Failure during content distribution.

For further information, please visit the Azure Static Web Apps documentation at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/static-web-apps/
If you believe this behavior is unexpected, please raise a GitHub issue at https://github.com/azure/static-web-apps/issues/
Exiting

Expected behavior
The deployment works every time

Screenshots

[miwebst]

Can you provide any details on the default hostname of the app (i.e. happy-dog-123)? If you do not feel comfortable providing that information here, I'd recommend filing a support request.

[meziantou]

Default hostname: https://zealous-river-050505f0f.azurestaticapps.net

[jpalo]

Getting this same error intermittently as well: icy-sea-009cf3103. Last issue today 3 hours ago. Retrying later or immediately after the error has so far worked, but NOT this time, so unable to deploy updates. Filed support request, will update here of the outcome.

UPDATE: Oh well, 3rd attempt, and it deployed successfully. Will discuss with support anyway...

---End of Oryx build logs---
Finished building app with Oryx
Using 'staticwebapp.config.json' file for configuration information, 'routes.json' will be ignored.
Either no Api directory was specified, or the specified directory was not found. Azure Functions will not be created.
Zipping App Artifacts
Done Zipping App Artifacts
Uploading build artifacts.
Finished Upload. Polling on deployment.
Status: InProgress. Time: 0.3286494(s)
Status: InProgress. Time: 15.6519709(s)
Status: InProgress. Time: 31.0321979(s)
Status: InProgress. Time: 46.4328469(s)
Status: InProgress. Time: 61.7466375(s)
Status: InProgress. Time: 76.9399129(s)
Status: InProgress. Time: 95.337563(s)
Status: InProgress. Time: 110.6155604(s)
Status: InProgress. Time: 125.8977842(s)
Status: InProgress. Time: 141.1042243(s)
Status: InProgress. Time: 156.4833813(s)
Status: InProgress. Time: 171.7872681(s)
Status: InProgress. Time: 187.1270068(s)
Status: Failed. Time: 203.5911316(s)
Deployment Failed :(
Deployment Failure Reason: Failure during content distribution.

[whoruyh]

I am also experiencing the same symptoms.
Randomly throws an error.
Any solution?

[meziantou]

Any solution?

Switch to another product... That's what I did as I was unable to reliably deploy my project 😟
But I kept the deploy job on SWA just to see how flaky it is. Maybe I'll switch back to SWA when the job reliably succeeds.

[miwebst]

We are working on a solution, will likely have an update in mid-January. Some things that you can do to improve this reliability in the short term (these may or may not be possible depending on how you build / operate your site):

• Reduce the number of unique files changing between uploads. If you are generating unique file paths on each build this can negatively affect our upload performance
• Reduce the total app size
• Reduce total number of files you are uploading

As I mentioned, these may not be suitable / possible options in which case you will need to wait until mid-January for the fixes we are working on. We apologize for the inconvenience.

[vxphuong]

@miwebst have any update? I met the same issue.

[meziantou]

@miwebst Any update on the issue?

On my side, the deployment continues to fail almost every day :(

Domain: mango-dune-05cf06d10.azurestaticapps.net
Deployment Id:

• f27ee0f1-7097-4097-935e-c013b28c29ba (2022-07-14T12:26:21Z)
• 9736ca3b-bef0-401b-b9a3-203e061894af (2022-07-13T12:21:13Z)

[LevYas]

Also happened to me, two times in a row,
DeploymentId: 2f3ba0d0-9f82-4b45-a04d-7396d97dcd2e and DeploymentId: 6f98cdb2-f37e-430f-9db7-bf8f6f311994
Any updates?

[jpalo]

I've had ticket open at Microsoft for over a year. They've promised me several times that "now the issue has been fixed" and that "now your instance has been moved somewhere else and consider yourself privileged as now YOU will no longer see the issue". Yet it still occurs every few weeks. I've always reported the issue to them, but in the last 2 months or so, they haven't even bothered to ackowledge my reports so I'm very confused how come a paid service (I have Standard tier) behaves like this. Bad service, bad support.

[MeAkib]

I am still facing the same issue!

[rohanbeemup]

same here :(

[leprechaun19]

yes, the same

[aherreragrubbrr]

Same here, it started to fail out of the blue.