Service Fabric Orchestrates Microservices

• Service Fabric is a free microservice orchestration platform that can enable highly scalable, distributed, reliable solutions.
• New or redesigned solutions with separable components that can scale independently will realize the most benefits.
• The platform can run in Azure, other clouds, and on-premises.
• Service Fabric Mesh is a serverless variant in preview; it could reduce deployment complexity and cut costs.
• Service Fabric has overlapping functionality with the popular Kubernetes container orchestration technology that Microsoft also supports in Azure.

Service Fabric, generally available since 2016, runs microservices, which are typically small portions of functionality that can work together to comprise an application or provide services to other applications. (See “Pros and Cons of Service Fabric Microservices.“)

Understanding Service Fabric

Service Fabric consists of a runtime, administration tools and interfaces, and developer SDKs for building, deploying, managing, and monitoring microservices. The platform was created for Azure and underpins several Azure services, such as SQL Database, App Service, and Event Hubs. Other Microsoft services, such as Intune, also use Service Fabric. However, the Service Fabric software is available for deployment outside of Azure on customer or third-party hardware.