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Is this a bug in the Infoblox NIOS Azure Marketplace offering?

· 2 min read
Simon Painter
Simon Painter
Cloud Network Architect - Microsoft MVP

I wanted to settle down today in a particularly dull meeting and have a go at setting up an Infoblox NIOS instance in Azure using the Azure Marketplace offering. I have used Infoblox in anger before and I know it is a solid product so I was keen to get it up and running in the lab so that I could have a play with the Anycast DNS features with Azure Route Server.

The deployment failed while I was creating the resource with the following error:

{
  "code": "IPv4BasicSkuPublicIpCountLimitReached",
  "message": "Cannot create more than 0 IPv4 Basic SKU public IP addresses 
    for this subscription in this region.",
  "details": []
}

The error itself made complete sense because since September 30th the Basic SKU Public IP addresses are no more; the thing that didn't make sense was that I was pretty sure I had selected a Standard SKU Public IP address in the deployment options.

I went back through the deployment steps to double check and sure enough the option for Standard SKU Public IP address was selected.

Create a Standard SKU Public IP address in the Azure Portal

The deployment failed again, with the same error message.

Error message from Infoblox NIOS deployment in Azure

I checked that the error was being generated by the same Public IP address resource that I had selected the Standard SKU option for, and sure enough it was.

Infoblox NIOS Public IP Address Error

It looks very much like a bug in the Infoblox NIOS Azure Marketplace offering where it is ignoring the Public IP SKU option selected during deployment and defaulting to Basic SKU which is no longer supported.