Fail fast to deploy when oidc configuration for azure is not properly configured

[TechWatching]

What happened?

The pulumi up command took 8 min to fail when running in a Github Actions with the following error:

azure-native:resources:ResourceGroup rg-breizhCamp creating (451s) error: autorest/Client#Do: Preparing request failed: StatusCode=0 -- Original Error: clientCredentialsToken: received HTTP status 401 with response: {"error":"unauthorized_client","error_description":"AADSTS70021: No matching federated identity record found for presented assertion. Assertion Issuer: 'https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com/'.

Expected Behavior

It should have failed fast by detecting that the OIDC configuration was incorrect.

Steps to reproduce

• Create a new pulumi project using the azure-typescript template.
• Run the pulumi up -y command in a github action

name: infra

on:
  workflow_dispatch:

permissions:
  id-token: write   # required for OIDC auth
  contents: read

jobs:
  provision-infra:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Install pnpm
        uses: pnpm/action-setup@v2
        with:
          version: latest

      - name: Set node version to 18
        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          node-version: 18
          cache: 'pnpm'
      
      - name: Install dependencies
        run: pnpm install
      
      - name: Provision infrastructure
        uses: pulumi/[email protected]
        id: pulumi
        with:
          command: up
          stack-name: dev
        env:
          ARM_USE_OIDC: true
          PULUMI_ACCESS_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.PULUMI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
          ARM_CLIENT_ID: ${{ secrets.ARM_CLIENT_ID }}
          ARM_TENANT_ID: ${{ secrets.ARM_TENANT_ID }}
          ARM_SUBSCRIPTION_ID: ${{ secrets.ARM_SUBSCRIPTION_ID }} 

Output of pulumi about

CLI
Version 3.73.0
Go Version go1.20.5
Go Compiler gc

Plugins
NAME VERSION
azure-native 2.0.0-beta.1
nodejs unknown

Host
OS Microsoft Windows 11 Pro
Version 10.0.22621 Build 22621
Arch x86_64

This project is written in nodejs: executable='C:\Users\alexa\AppData\Local\pnpm\node.exe' version='v18.16.0'

Current Stack: TechWatching/demo/dev

Found no resources associated with dev

Found no pending operations associated with dev

Additional context

It took 8 min when running from github action.
When running locally it failed quickly.

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[dixler]

Hey. First off, thanks for posting these because they really highlight some ways we could do better because this does seem frustrating.

• Fail fast to deploy when azure default location is missing #971
• Fail fast to deploy when oidc configuration for azure is not properly configured #972

Do you mind providing a repro program? I'm trying to determine if it could be enhanced via the pulumi engine or the azure provider. 🙏

[TechWatching]

Here is the code I used: https://github.com/TechWatching/azure-ready-repository-repro You can see the logs of the failed attemps in the github actions section