Need to cancel / delete Aria Automation Pipelines executions which are stuck in PREPARING WORKSPACE status

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

• A  FAILED pipeline execution stuck in "PREPARING WORKSPACE" state is blocking further execution of the pipeline.
• This can cause future executions of this pipeline to remain in QUEUED status and not execute.

Environment

• Aria Automation Pipelines / Code Stream 8.x

Cause

• In the Kubernetes workspace in CI task, the pod can get created & CI agent link available, without the task progressing from WORKSPACE_CREATION to 'RUNNING'.

 

Resolution

• In order to delete a stuck execution, its possible to reveal the Delete action via a keyboard combination:
  • Option + Shift + D on Mac.
  • On Windows or Linux, the combination is: Alt + Shift + D.
• This has to be done on Executions page of Aria Pipelines, and it toggles the appearance of "Delete" in this menu

Alternative, workaround:

• If executions are limited by the concurrency value, no further executions get scheduled until this is increased.

Additional Information

• The shortcut is mentioned in this article:
• https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/SaaS/Using-Automation-Pipelines/GUID-E1B7AB43-FB50-48F2-8FA4-F8C581014EDA.html