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Implementing Azure: Putting Modern DevOps to Use

By : Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Markus Klein, Mohamed Waly, Namit Tanasseri, Rahul Rai
Book Image

Implementing Azure: Putting Modern DevOps to Use

By: Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Markus Klein, Mohamed Waly, Namit Tanasseri, Rahul Rai

Overview of this book

This Learning Path helps you understand microservices architecture and leverage various services of Microsoft Azure Service Fabric to build, deploy, and maintain highly scalable enterprise-grade applications. You will learn to select an appropriate Azure backend structure for your solutions and work with its toolkit and managed apps to share your solutions with its service catalog. As you progress through the Learning Path, you will study Azure Cloud Services, Azure-managed Kubernetes, and Azure Container Services deployment techniques. To apply all that you’ve understood, you will build an end-to-end Azure system in scalable, decoupled tiers for an industrial bakery with three business domains. Toward the end of this Learning Path, you will build another scalable architecture using Azure Service Bus topics to send orders between decoupled business domains with scalable worker roles processing these orders. By the end of this Learning Path, you will be comfortable in using development, deployment, and maintenance processes to build robust cloud solutions on Azure. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Learn Microsoft Azure by Mohamed Wali • Implementing Azure Solutions - Second Edition by Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Markus Klein • Microservices with Azure by Namit Tanasseri and Rahul Rai
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Exploring the Service Fabric Explorer


Service Fabric SDK installs a Service Fabric Application management tool in your system named Service Fabric Explorer (or SFX as Microsoft calls it). You can view the explorer UI by navigating to http://localhost:19080/Explorer/.

It is a two-panel web application in which the left panel displays an overview of your cluster in a tree format and the right panel displays detailed information about the currently selected item. Let's take a quick overview of the tree menu on the left:

Service Fabric Explorer overview

Application Type

This node represents the type of your application, which in the case of our sample is HelloWorldApplicationType. Defining the application type grants the flexibility for an application administrator to tailor the application type to a specific application to be deployed to a Service Fabric cluster by specifying the appropriate parameters of the ApplicationType element in the application manifest.

Application instance

Below the application...