Very slow downloads of modules where need to download the Az modules from the PowerShell Gallery

[rco-imp-software]

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Steps to reproduce

• Running the AzurePowerShell@5 task in Azure DevOps using a Azure PowerShell version that IS NOT installed on the agents.

Expected behavior

Download takes 2-5 minutes

Actual behavior

Download taking upwards of 50 minutes

Error details

No error - Just taking far too long

Environment data

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Version

5.257.0

Visuals

[ssmith80]

I am experiencing the same issue, essentially blocking our deployments to production - see my related issue here - #318

[majaniemi]

Same here, having serious problems downloading and installing Az modules on MS hosted build agents, self-hosted build agents, can also reproduce the issue on my own workstation

[lukasbbuehler]

We also experience the same issue! Somehow our tasks took 1-2minutes yesterday and now take up to 40minutes to complete 🐌
Also our docker image builds are affected, when just doing a installation of the Az module.

[alerickson]

Thanks for reporting we have a mitigation in place as of roughly 6 hours ago.

[rco-imp-software]

Okay, thank you for letting us know. Feels like it has been better today - Will come back if this becomes a problem again

[rco-imp-software]

It seems in the space of a week, this has started happening again for us. Whilst it is not taking AS long as it was, sometimes we are now getting failures. Please can this be addressed as soon as possible.

[ssmith80]

We are also seeing a big slow down, again effecting our deployments. Are there plans in place to make this service perform reliably?

[alerickson]

Yes, there is a deployment underway, but it hasn't made it to production yet due to some other issues. We'll try to get this out before this time next week, since this seems to get worse around this time each week. I'll report back at the end of the week with updates.

[ssmith80]

Thanks for the update, I look forward to it!

[alerickson]

Deployment has been out for almost 48 hours. Please let us know if this issue persists!

[ssmith80]

Hi @alerickson - unfortunately we have hit the same problem again, it's taking an age to download modules