Defining and configuring your Azure Service Fabric cluster
Azure Service Fabric is the main Microsoft orchestrator that can host Docker containers, native .NET applications, and a distributed computing model called reliable services. We have already explained how we can create applications that contain these three types of services in the Visual Studio support for Azure Service Fabric section. In this section, we will explain how to create an Azure Service Fabric cluster in the Azure portal and provide some more details on reliable services. More practical details regarding reliable services will be provided in the example described in the Use case – Logging microservices section.
You can enter the Service Fabric section of Azure by typing Service Fabric
into the Azure search bar and selecting Service Fabric Cluster.
A summary page of all of your Service Fabric clusters appears which, in your case, should be empty. When you click the Add button to create your first...