Curl appears to be missing from mcr.microsoft.com/azure-cli:latest

[lcividinwork]

Describe the bug

Curl appears to be missing in mcr.microsoft.com/azure-cli:latest alpine I can see it's still in the dockerfile here https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/blob/dev/alpine.dockerfile#L38
I can install it with apk add

docker run -it mcr.microsoft.com/azure-cli sh
/ # curl
sh: curl: not found

Related command

docker run -it mcr.microsoft.com/azure-cli sh
/ # curl
sh: curl: not found

/ # ls -lah /usr/bin | grep curl #nothing found
/ # ls -lah /usr/local/bin | grep curl #nothing found

curl --version
sh: curl: not found

apk add curl
/ # apk add curl
fetch https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.19/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
fetch https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.19/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
(1/7) Installing brotli-libs (1.1.0-r1)
(2/7) Installing c-ares (1.24.0-r1)
(3/7) Installing libunistring (1.1-r2)
(4/7) Installing libidn2 (2.3.4-r4)
(5/7) Installing nghttp2-libs (1.58.0-r0)
(6/7) Installing libcurl (8.5.0-r0)
(7/7) Installing curl (8.5.0-r0)
Executing busybox-1.36.1-r15.trigger
OK: 35 MiB in 57 packages
/ # which curl
/usr/bin/curl
/ #

/ # curl --version
curl 8.5.0 (x86_64-alpine-linux-musl) libcurl/8.5.0 OpenSSL/3.1.4 zlib/1.3.1 brotli/1.1.0 c-ares/1.24.0 libidn2/2.3.4 nghttp2/1.58.0
Release-Date: 2023-12-06
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher gophers http https imap imaps mqtt pop3 pop3s rtsp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp ws wss
Features: alt-svc AsynchDNS brotli HSTS HTTP2 HTTPS-proxy IDN IPv6 Largefile libz NTLM SSL threadsafe TLS-SRP UnixSockets
/ #

Errors

Curl is missing from the image. I can see it's meant to be added in the dockerfile in this repo though

sh: curl: not found

Issue script & Debug output

no debug required package is missing possible image build issue d

Expected behavior

Curl should be present in the latest image

Environment Summary

/ # az --version
azure-cli 2.58.0

core 2.58.0
telemetry 1.1.0

Dependencies:
msal 1.26.0
azure-mgmt-resource 23.1.0b2

Python location '/usr/local/bin/python'
Extensions directory '/root/.azure/cliextensions'

Python (Linux) 3.11.8 (main, Feb 7 2024, 23:20:20) [GCC 13.2.1 20231014]

Legal docs and information: aka.ms/AzureCliLegal

Your CLI is up-to-date.

Additional context

is docker image related not azcli command related.

[yonzhan]

Thank you for opening this issue, we will look into it.

[azure-client-tools-bot-prd]

Hi @lcividinwork
Find similar issue #5060.

Issue title	curl not working in the azure-cli-python Docker image
Create time	2017-12-07
Comment number	4

Possible solution:
According to the previous issue, curl was not working in the azure-cli-python Docker image. The solution was to install curl on the base image (python alpine) which worked fine. In the previous issue, it was also mentioned that the issue was fixed in azuresdk/azure-cli-python:latest which was pushed a few hours ago. When the next release is made, that image will be tagged with version 2.0.23. Therefore, you can try pulling the latest image and installing curl with the command apk add curl --no-cache.

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Please confirm if this resolves your issue.

[lcividinwork]

no that is not a solution but a work around, which has been implemented to work around it but I believe it still should be in the image build. https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/blob/release/alpine.dockerfile#L38

[bebound]

We remove it intentionally. See https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/pull/27567

[lcividinwork]

Ok thanks for the explanation, we've been using the latest tag azurecli image for a long time, our deployment plans only now have started failing with the missing curl package this week.
If it's been removed from since 2023, I wonder why our plans have only started failing now?
I added a step to install the package, just don't get why the image only started failing this week.

[pinkfloydx33]

You realize that by removing you have broken Azure ARM deploymentScripts which uses the azure-cli image and from within launches curl to download supporting scripts. This no longer works. I just tried updating to the latest version "supported" by Azure but apparently that's wrong and I need to downgrade a few versions.