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
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.