Inability to Execute Workflows in Azure Container Apps

[hharb4]

Inability to Execute Workflows in Azure Container Apps despite Local Success and Documentation Adherence

Expected Behavior

Ensuring Consistent Workflow Execution on Azure Container Apps, mirroring Local Environment

Actual Behavior

workflow engine fails to initiate within the container, as evidenced by the error message "failed to auto-start the workflow engine" in the logs.

service container logs:
`2023-05-15T12:18:09.38279 Connecting to the container 'celebrityonboarding'...

2023-05-15T12:18:09.39797 Successfully Connected to container: 'celebrityonboarding' [Revision: 'celebrityonboarding--arjsaxe', Replica: 'celebrityonboarding--arjsaxe-84b895b46d-p7zzz']
2023-05-15T12:17:47.578217187Z info: Microsoft.DurableTask[4]
2023-05-15T12:17:47.578253405Z Sidecar work-item streaming connection established.
2023-05-15T12:17:47.579138011Z info: Microsoft.DurableTask[3]
2023-05-15T12:17:47.579150184Z The sidecar at address localhost:50001 is unavailable. Will continue retrying.
2023-05-15T12:17:52.583761543Z info: Microsoft.DurableTask[4]
2023-05-15T12:17:52.583785207Z Sidecar work-item streaming connection established.
2023-05-15T12:17:52.585585277Z info: Microsoft.DurableTask[3]
2023-05-15T12:17:52.585597270Z The sidecar at address localhost:50001 is unavailable. Will continue retrying.
2023-05-15T12:17:57.588227586Z info: Microsoft.DurableTask[4]
2023-05-15T12:17:57.588236733Z Sidecar work-item streaming connection established.
2023-05-15T12:17:57.588448960Z info: Microsoft.DurableTask[3]
2023-05-15T12:17:57.588458629Z The sidecar at address localhost:50001 is unavailable. Will continue retrying.
2023-05-15T12:18:02.591753448Z info: Microsoft.DurableTask[4]
2023-05-15T12:18:02.591771352Z Sidecar work-item streaming connection established.
2023-05-15T12:18:02.592581536Z info: Microsoft.DurableTask[3]
2023-05-15T12:18:02.592591505Z The sidecar at address localhost:50001 is unavailable. Will continue retrying.
2023-05-15T12:18:07.593212966Z info: Microsoft.DurableTask[4]
2023-05-15T12:18:07.593228165Z Sidecar work-item streaming connection established.
2023-05-15T12:18:07.594118913Z info: Microsoft.DurableTask[3]
2023-05-15T12:18:07.594130615Z The sidecar at address localhost:50001 is unavailable. Will continue retrying.

2023-05-15T12:18:12.595316839Z info: Microsoft.DurableTask[4]
2023-05-15T12:18:12.595343870Z Sidecar work-item streaming connection established.
2023-05-15T12:18:12.597548247Z info: Microsoft.DurableTask[3]
2023-05-15T12:18:12.597578313Z The sidecar at address localhost:50001 is unavailable. Will continue retrying.`

daprd container logs:
`2023-05-15T12:18:54.97812 Connecting to the container 'daprd'...

2023-05-15T12:18:54.99609 Successfully Connected to container: 'daprd' [Revision: 'celebrityonboarding--arjsaxe', Replica: 'celebrityonboarding--arjsaxe-84b895b46d-p7zzz']
2023-05-15T12:18:32.651934645Z time="2023-05-15T12:18:32.651821856Z" level=info msg="gRPC API Called" app_id=celebrityonboarding instance=celebrityonboarding--arjsaxe-84b895b46d-p7zzz method=/TaskHubSidecarService/Hello scope=dapr.runtime.grpc.api-info type=log useragent="grpc-dotnet/2.50.0 (.NET 7.0.5; CLR 7.0.5; net7.0; linux; x64)" ver=1.10.4-msft-2
2023-05-15T12:18:32.652860864Z time="2023-05-15T12:18:32.652467797Z" level=info msg="gRPC API Called" app_id=celebrityonboarding instance=celebrityonboarding--arjsaxe-84b895b46d-p7zzz method=/TaskHubSidecarService/GetWorkItems scope=dapr.runtime.grpc.api-info type=log useragent="grpc-dotnet/2.50.0 (.NET 7.0.5; CLR 7.0.5; net7.0; linux; x64)" ver=1.10.4-msft-2
2023-05-15T12:18:32.652871143Z time="2023-05-15T12:18:32.652503003Z" level=info msg="work item stream established by user-agent: [grpc-dotnet/2.50.0 (.NET 7.0.5; CLR 7.0.5; net7.0; linux; x64)]" app_id=celebrityonboarding instance=celebrityonboarding--arjsaxe-84b895b46d-p7zzz scope=dapr.runtime.wfengine type=log ver=1.10.4-msft-2
2023-05-15T12:18:32.652874018Z time="2023-05-15T12:18:32.652519474Z" level=warning msg="unable to establish work item stream at this time: failed to auto-start the workflow engine: actor runtime is not configured" app_id=celebrityonboarding instance=celebrityonboarding--arjsaxe-84b895b46d-p7zzz scope=dapr.runtime.wfengine type=log ver=1.10.4-msft-2
2023-05-15T12:18:37.654811507Z time="2023-05-15T12:18:37.654631364Z" level=info msg="gRPC API Called" app_id=celebrityonboarding instance=celebrityonboarding--arjsaxe-84b895b46d-p7zzz method=/TaskHubSidecarService/Hello scope=dapr.runtime.grpc.api-info type=log useragent="grpc-dotnet/2.50.0 (.NET 7.0.5; CLR 7.0.5; net7.0; linux; x64)" ver=1.10.4-msft-2
2023-05-15T12:18:37.656352002Z time="2023-05-15T12:18:37.656247869Z" level=info msg="gRPC API Called" app_id=celebrityonboarding instance=celebrityonboarding--arjsaxe-84b895b46d-p7zzz method=/TaskHubSidecarService/GetWorkItems scope=dapr.runtime.grpc.api-info type=log useragent="grpc-dotnet/2.50.0 (.NET 7.0.5; CLR 7.0.5; net7.0; linux; x64)" ver=1.10.4-msft-2
2023-05-15T12:18:37.656368854Z time="2023-05-15T12:18:37.656298464Z" level=info msg="work item stream established by user-agent: [grpc-dotnet/2.50.0 (.NET 7.0.5; CLR 7.0.5; net7.0; linux; x64)]" app_id=celebrityonboarding instance=celebrityonboarding--arjsaxe-84b895b46d-p7zzz scope=dapr.runtime.wfengine type=log ver=1.10.4-msft-2
2023-05-15T12:18:37.656416643Z time="2023-05-15T12:18:37.656325595Z" level=warning msg="unable to establish work item stream at this time: failed to auto-start the workflow engine: actor runtime is not configured" app_id=celebrityonboarding instance=celebrityonboarding--arjsaxe-84b895b46d-p7zzz scope=dapr.runtime.wfengine type=log ver=1.10.4-msft-2
2023-05-15T12:18:42.656289552Z time="2023-05-15T12:18:42.656177422Z" level=info msg="gRPC API Called" app_id=celebrityonboarding instance=celebrityonboarding--arjsaxe-84b895b46d-p7zzz method=/TaskHubSidecarService/Hello scope=dapr.runtime.grpc.api-info type=log useragent="grpc-dotnet/2.50.0 (.NET 7.0.5; CLR 7.0.5; net7.0; linux; x64)" ver=1.10.4-msft-2
2023-05-15T12:18:42.656938007Z time="2023-05-15T12:18:42.656764713Z" level=info msg="gRPC API Called" app_id=celebrityonboarding instance=celebrityonboarding--arjsaxe-84b895b46d-p7zzz method=/TaskHubSidecarService/GetWorkItems scope=dapr.runtime.grpc.api-info type=log useragent="grpc-dotnet/2.50.0 (.NET 7.0.5; CLR 7.0.5; net7.0; linux; x64)" ver=1.10.4-msft-2
2023-05-15T12:18:42.656948717Z time="2023-05-15T12:18:42.656801893Z" level=info msg="work item stream established by user-agent: [grpc-dotnet/2.50.0 (.NET 7.0.5; CLR 7.0.5; net7.0; linux; x64)]" app_id=celebrityonboarding instance=celebrityonboarding--arjsaxe-84b895b46d-p7zzz scope=dapr.runtime.wfengine type=log ver=1.10.4-msft-2
2023-05-15T12:18:42.656964848Z time="2023-05-15T12:18:42.656817312Z" level=warning msg="unable to establish work item stream at this time: failed to auto-start the workflow engine: actor runtime is not configured" app_id=celebrityonboarding instance=celebrityonboarding--arjsaxe-84b895b46d-p7zzz scope=dapr.runtime.wfengine type=log ver=1.10.4-msft-2
2023-05-15T12:18:47.659864047Z time="2023-05-15T12:18:47.659699542Z" level=info msg="gRPC API Called" app_id=celebrityonboarding instance=celebrityonboarding--arjsaxe-84b895b46d-p7zzz method=/TaskHubSidecarService/Hello scope=dapr.runtime.grpc.api-info type=log useragent="grpc-dotnet/2.50.0 (.NET 7.0.5; CLR 7.0.5; net7.0; linux; x64)" ver=1.10.4-msft-2
2023-05-15T12:18:47.660754707Z time="2023-05-15T12:18:47.66041019Z" level=info msg="gRPC API Called" app_id=celebrityonboarding instance=celebrityonboarding--arjsaxe-84b895b46d-p7zzz method=/TaskHubSidecarService/GetWorkItems scope=dapr.runtime.grpc.api-info type=log useragent="grpc-dotnet/2.50.0 (.NET 7.0.5; CLR 7.0.5; net7.0; linux; x64)" ver=1.10.4-msft-2
2023-05-15T12:18:47.662184768Z time="2023-05-15T12:18:47.66044181Z" level=info msg="work item stream established by user-agent: [grpc-dotnet/2.50.0 (.NET 7.0.5; CLR 7.0.5; net7.0; linux; x64)]" app_id=celebrityonboarding instance=celebrityonboarding--arjsaxe-84b895b46d-p7zzz scope=dapr.runtime.wfengine type=log ver=1.10.4-msft-2
2023-05-15T12:18:47.662199906Z time="2023-05-15T12:18:47.660464903Z" level=warning msg="unable to establish work item stream at this time: failed to auto-start the workflow engine: actor runtime is not configured" app_id=celebrityonboarding instance=celebrityonboarding--arjsaxe-84b895b46d-p7zzz scope=dapr.runtime.wfengine type=log ver=1.10.4-msft-2
2023-05-15T12:18:52.662738125Z time="2023-05-15T12:18:52.66258567Z" level=info msg="gRPC API Called" app_id=celebrityonboarding instance=celebrityonboarding--arjsaxe-84b895b46d-p7zzz method=/TaskHubSidecarService/Hello scope=dapr.runtime.grpc.api-info type=log useragent="grpc-dotnet/2.50.0 (.NET 7.0.5; CLR 7.0.5; net7.0; linux; x64)" ver=1.10.4-msft-2
2023-05-15T12:18:52.663836714Z time="2023-05-15T12:18:52.663389048Z" level=info msg="gRPC API Called" app_id=celebrityonboarding instance=celebrityonboarding--arjsaxe-84b895b46d-p7zzz method=/TaskHubSidecarService/GetWorkItems scope=dapr.runtime.grpc.api-info type=log useragent="grpc-dotnet/2.50.0 (.NET 7.0.5; CLR 7.0.5; net7.0; linux; x64)" ver=1.10.4-msft-2
2023-05-15T12:18:52.663850310Z time="2023-05-15T12:18:52.663424605Z" level=info msg="work item stream established by user-agent: [grpc-dotnet/2.50.0 (.NET 7.0.5; CLR 7.0.5; net7.0; linux; x64)]" app_id=celebrityonboarding instance=celebrityonboarding--arjsaxe-84b895b46d-p7zzz scope=dapr.runtime.wfengine type=log ver=1.10.4-msft-2
2023-05-15T12:18:52.663853476Z time="2023-05-15T12:18:52.66344338Z" level=warning msg="unable to establish work item stream at this time: failed to auto-start the workflow engine: actor runtime is not configured" app_id=celebrityonboarding instance=celebrityonboarding--arjsaxe-84b895b46d-p7zzz scope=dapr.runtime.wfengine type=log ver=1.10.4-msft-2

2023-05-15T12:18:57.667276294Z time="2023-05-15T12:18:57.667151036Z" level=info msg="gRPC API Called" app_id=celebrityonboarding instance=celebrityonboarding--arjsaxe-84b895b46d-p7zzz method=/TaskHubSidecarService/Hello scope=dapr.runtime.grpc.api-info type=log useragent="grpc-dotnet/2.50.0 (.NET 7.0.5; CLR 7.0.5; net7.0; linux; x64)" ver=1.10.4-msft-2
2023-05-15T12:18:57.668040184Z time="2023-05-15T12:18:57.667934778Z" level=info msg="gRPC API Called" app_id=celebrityonboarding instance=celebrityonboarding--arjsaxe-84b895b46d-p7zzz method=/TaskHubSidecarService/GetWorkItems scope=dapr.runtime.grpc.api-info type=log useragent="grpc-dotnet/2.50.0 (.NET 7.0.5; CLR 7.0.5; net7.0; linux; x64)" ver=1.10.4-msft-2
2023-05-15T12:18:57.668426538Z time="2023-05-15T12:18:57.667974613Z" level=info msg="work item stream established by user-agent: [grpc-dotnet/2.50.0 (.NET 7.0.5; CLR 7.0.5; net7.0; linux; x64)]" app_id=celebrityonboarding instance=celebrityonboarding--arjsaxe-84b895b46d-p7zzz scope=dapr.runtime.wfengine type=log ver=1.10.4-msft-2
2023-05-15T12:18:57.668450743Z time="2023-05-15T12:18:57.667992637Z" level=warning msg="unable to establish work item stream at this time: failed to auto-start the workflow engine: actor runtime is not configured" app_id=celebrityonboarding instance=celebrityonboarding--arjsaxe-84b895b46d-p7zzz scope=dapr.runtime.wfengine type=log ver=1.10.4-msft-2
`

Steps to Reproduce the Problem

It should be reproducible by following the dapr workflow documentation. Knowing that the workflow is running locally and tried to point out "actor runtime is not configured" by creating an actor and it worked well.

Related issues

#1070

Version

v1.10

[halspang]

@hharb4 - Dapr Workflows aren't currently supported in Container Apps. The rule of thumb here being that they tend to not support Alpha APIs or Preview Features.

We don't have a ton of control over this so your best bet if you want this prioritized by them is to create an issue in their repo asking for it: https://github.com/microsoft/azure-container-apps

Closing this issue as it is there is no action from our side.