Service Fabric supports hosting containerized Microservices. It offers specialized features to manage containerized workloads. Some of these features are container image deployment and activation, resource governance, repository authentication, container port to host mapping, container-to-container discovery and communication, support for environment variables, and so on. Service Fabric supports two types of container workloads - Windows Containers and Docker Containers. Let's pick them one by one and understand the packaging and deployment process.
Similar to Guest Executables, Service Fabric will support packaging Guest Containers either through Visual Studio or manually. However, the Visual Studio wizard for Guest Containers is still under development. Let's dive deeper into the process of packaging and deploying a Guest Container manually.
The packaging process consists of four major steps - publishing the container to a repository...