Securing an Azure Service Fabric cluster

Azure Service Fabric is a microservice platform that allows you to host your services in a reliable and durable manner, without the need to replicate them. One of the most important features of Service Fabric is its security capabilities – regardless of whether you're using certificates or Azure AD.

In this section, you will learn how to secure access to your cluster and ensure that only a limited number of people can access it.

For this section, I am assuming that you have already created a Service Fabric cluster in a resource group.

Before we continue, I would like to remind you of the process of creating a cluster:

Figure 4.51 - Security tab for creating a Service Fabric cluster

One of the required steps is to configure the available security features. For node-to-node communication, Azure Service Fabric uses certificates, which you can either generate or provide custom ones. Whichever option you choose, Azure Key Vault...