Front Door CDN: Property 'profile.sku' is read-only and cannot be changed

Question

I followed this instruction to migrate Azure CDN from Edgio to Azure Front Door:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/frontdoor/migrate-cdn-to-front-door

Section: Set up Azure Front Door

At the end I was no able to deploy the new Azure Front Door. The error message was : "Property 'profile.sku' is read-only and cannot be changed".

Answer 1

Hi Błażej Próchniak

Greetings!

Welcome to the Microsoft Q&A Platform. Thank you for reaching out & I hope you are doing well.

The error "Property 'profile.sku' is read-only and cannot be changed" typically occurs during Azure Front Door migrations when attempting to create Front Door profile.

The SKU property can only be set during the initial deployment, and any subsequent attempts to change it will result in this:

Refer: https://github.com/Azure/bicep-types-az/issues/2105

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