GitHub Action Workflow hashicorp/setup-terraform@v2 ERROR: Please run ‘az login’ to setup accountGitHub Action Workflow hashicorp/setup-terraform@v2 error:

A quick blog post on assisting with a couple of errors I came across when using workflow hashicorp/setup-terraform@v2 – this also remediates hashicorp/setup-terraform@v1 also.

Two errors found, relating to the same fix:

First error:

Error: building AzureRM Client: obtain subscription() from Azure CLI: parsing json result from the Azure CLI: waiting for the Azure CLI: exit status 1: ERROR: Please run 'az login' to setup account.

Second error:

Error: Error building ARM Config: obtain subscription() from Azure CLI: parsing json result from the Azure CLI: waiting for the Azure CLI: exit status 1: ERROR: Please run 'az login' to setup account.

The fix

As detailed here in standard terraform usage is:

The issue is resolved after setting the environment variables -> ARM_SUBSCRIPTION_ID, ARM_TENANT_ID, ARM_CLIENT_ID and ARM_CLIENT_SECRET.

Within my GitHub action, here is my remediation example showing a successful run of Terraform init:

name: 'Terraform'

on:
  push:
    branches:
    - main
  pull_request:

jobs:
  terraform:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: Setup Terraform
        uses: hashicorp/setup-terraform@v1

      - name: Terraform Init
        run: |
          export ARM_CLIENT_ID=$ARM_CLIENT_ID
          export ARM_CLIENT_SECRET=$ARM_CLIENT_SECRET
          export ARM_SUBSCRIPTION_ID=$ARM_SUBSCRIPTION_ID
          export ARM_TENANT_ID=$ARM_TENANT_ID

          terraform init
        env:
          ARM_CLIENT_ID: ${{secrets.ARM_CLIENT_ID}}
          ARM_CLIENT_SECRET: ${{secrets.ARM_CLIENT_SECRET}}
          ARM_SUBSCRIPTION_ID: ${{secrets.ARM_SUBSCRIPTION_ID}}
          ARM_TENANT_ID: ${{secrets.ARM_TENANT_ID}}

Notice the highlighted above? I have used export to resolve the error, exporting in the required values of ARM_CLIENT_ID , ARM_CLIENT_SECRET , ARM_SUBSCRIPTION_ID , ARM_TENANT_ID

with a successful run as shown below.