Why Service Fabric?
- Runs containers, .NET, Java, Node.js, and more.
- Built‑in health monitoring, rolling upgrades, and self‑repair.
- Supports stateful workloads with low latency.
- Integrates with Azure DevOps & GitHub Actions.
Overview
Features
Code Sample
Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices. It abstracts the underlying infrastructure, allowing developers to focus on delivering business value.
Service Fabric powers many core Azure services including Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, and Azure Cognitive Search.
- Stateful Services: Persistent state with low latency.
- Stateless Services: Ideal for web front‑ends, APIs, and workers.
- Container Orchestration: Run Docker containers alongside native services.
- Rolling Upgrades: Zero‑downtime updates with health checks.
- Self‑Healing: Automatic failure detection and recovery.
Below is a minimal Service Fabric application written in C#.
// Program.cs
using System;
using Microsoft.ServiceFabric.Services.Runtime;
namespace SimpleStatelessService
{
internal static class Program
{
private static void Main()
{
ServiceRuntime.RegisterServiceAsync(
"SimpleStatelessServiceType",
context => new SimpleStatelessService(context)).GetAwaiter().GetResult();
Console.WriteLine("Service registered.");
Thread.Sleep(Timeout.Infinite);
}
}
}