the following arguments are required: --service/-s about azure-spring-cloud-training

[jdubois]

Hi @javaHelper!
To setup the cluster, did you follow https://github.com/microsoft/azure-spring-cloud-training/blob/master/01-create-an-azure-spring-cloud-instance/README.md ? This is step 1, "01 - Create an Azure Spring Cloud instance".

[javaHelper]

Yes I followed steps mentioned here - "01 - Create an Azure Spring Cloud instance". If you see the readme, I specifically dont see any instructions to create the cluster. Does cluster word refers to kubernates cluster?
<I'm fairly new to Azure>

[jdubois]

The cluster is a Spring Cloud cluster - to answer your other question, it's indeed a Kubernetes cluster underneath, but you don't have direct access to it.
You create it at the end of step 1, when you run the az spring-cloud create command line near the end. You then configure it to be the default cluster, that's why you won't need to refer to it in the next steps.

[javaHelper]

Thanks for the details, this is what I've tried and still no luck

C:\Users\pc\simple-microservice>set AZ_RESOURCE_GROUP=spring-cloud-lab

C:\Users\pc\simple-microservice>set AZ_SPRING_CLOUD_NAME=azure-spring-cloud-lab-prateek

C:\Users\pc\simple-microservice>az spring-cloud create -g "$AZ_RESOURCE_GROUP" -n "$AZ_SPRING_CLOUD_NAME" --sku standard
Parameter 'resource_group_name' must conform to the following pattern: '^[-\\w\\._\\(\\)]+$'.

C:\Users\pc\simple-microservice>az spring-cloud create -g spring-cloud-lab -n azure-spring-cloud-lab-prateek --sku standard
 - Creating Service ..

[jdubois]

It seems you're not using Git Bash (which is in the prerequisites at https://github.com/microsoft/azure-spring-cloud-training/blob/master/00-setup-your-environment/README.md ), so your "$AZ_RESOURCE_GROUP" isn't being extrapolated. That would explain why you have the error Parameter 'resource_group_name' must conform to the following pattern: '^[-\\w\\._\\(\\)]+$'(as you now have $in the name of your resource group.
As the resource group isn't correct, then the cluster isn't created.

[jdubois]

I can't guarantee that the rest of the training will work if you don't use Git Bash, it hasn't been tested with another shell and there is quite a lot of commands in the next units.
Anyway, it still seems that the way you configure your resource group isn't good, as the name should have a length that is greater than 1. I'm not sure how to do this outside of Bash, I believe you need to use something like %AZ_RESOURCE_GROUP%, but I haven't done this for something like 15 years so again I can't guarantee it will work.

[javaHelper]

Thanks, great help, things are working fine. I had to create the Resource Group manually and now things have worked via command line - git bash

[jdubois]

Awesome! And congrats :-)