Azure Service Fabric for Developers

Learn about the main benefits of Azure Service Fabric, as well as how to build Service Fabric applications for the cloud or on premises.

Introduction

• Increase reliability, performance, and scalability with Azure Service Fabric

1. What is Azure Service Fabric?

• What is Azure Service Fabric?
• How does Azure Service Fabric work?
• Microservices versus monoliths
• Service Fabric architecture
• Service Fabric versus Kubernetes

2. Azure Service Fabric Development Environment

• Supported environments for running Service Fabric applications
• Installing Azure Service Fabric tools
• Service Fabric development environment verification
• Managing your local Service Fabric cluster
• Challenge: Installing and verifying your development environment
• Solution: Installing and verifying your development environment

3. Azure Service Fabric Clusters

• Creating a Service Fabric cluster from the Azure portal
• Creating a Service Fabric cluster from Azure CLI
• Anatomy of an Azure Service Fabric cluster
• Administering an Azure Service Fabric cluster from the Azure portal
• Administering an Azure Service Fabric cluster from the Service Fabric CLI
• Scaling an Azure Service Fabric cluster
• Challenge: Provisioning an Azure Service Fabric cluster
• Solution: Provisioning an Azure Service Fabric cluster

4. Developing Applications with Service Fabric Reliable Services

• Supported application models in Service Fabric
• Creating Service Fabric stateless Reliable Services with .NET Core
• Creating Service Fabric stateless Reliable Services with ASP.NET Core
• Configuring service ports in Service Fabric applications
• Implementing a common interface for communication between Service Fabric services
• Communication between Service Fabric services with remoting
• Communication between Service Fabric services with HTTP
• Communicating to Service Fabric services by using WCF
• Challenge: Developing an Azure Service Fabric application by using stateless services
• Solution: Developing an Azure Service Fabric application by using stateless services

5. Service Fabric and Containers

• Creating a container-based Service Fabric application
• Lifting and shifting legacy applications to Service Fabric
• Challenge: Create an Azure Service Fabric application based on Docker containers
• Solution: Creating an Azure Service Fabric application based on Docker containers

6. Service Fabric Application Deployment

• Service Fabric application packaging
• Publishing Service Fabric applications
• Updating Service Fabric applications
• Challenge: Upgrading an Azure Service Fabric application
• Solution: Upgrading an Azure Service Fabric application

Conclusion

• Next steps