Lift, shift, and modernize using containers on Azure Service Fabric
Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that is the foundational technology powering core Azure infrastructure, as well as other Microsoft services such as Skype for Business, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Database, Dynamics 365, Cortana, and many more. It makes building and managing scalable microservices and container applications for Windows and Linux easy. Service Fabric has supported container orchestration for production scenarios for several months now with the general availability announcement for Windows Server 2016 at Microsoft Build and Ubuntu Linux 16.04 at the Ignite conference. At Ignite, we demonstrated the scheduling, placement of a million containers on a cluster spanning 3500 nodes in under two minutes, which meant that you never have to worry about performance and scale with Service Fabric. We’ll have a more detailed post on this coming soon. In this post, we’ll call out some of the container orchestration capabilities in Service Fabric along with a peek at what’s coming soon. Many customers are looking at lift-and-shift followed by modernization of their applications, and Service Fabric provides first-class support for either scenario. Read about it in the Azure blog.Announcing Azure Service Fabric 5.5 and SDK 2.5
Customers around the world are delivering their mission critical business applications as always-on, scalable, and distributed services built using Azure Service Fabric. Last week we rolled out Azure Service Fabric 5.5 to Azure clusters in 26 regions across the world. We’re excited to announce the release of version 2.5 of the Azure Service Fabric SDK and the corresponding 5.5 release of the Azure Service Fabric runtime and standalone Windows Server installer. If you're using Visual Studio 2017, the Service Fabric tools are built in, so you'll only need to install the Microsoft Azure Service Fabric SDK. If you're using Visual Studio 2015, install the Microsoft Azure Service Fabric SDK and Tools. Learn more on the Azure blog.
