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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

Chapter 13. Understanding Azure Service Fabric

Microservices architecture portrays efficient mechanisms of solving modern enterprise problems. However, this simplification comes at a cost. Manually managing hyperscale deployments of Microservices is nearly impossible. Automating Microservices lifecycle management becomes an inevitable requirement to achieve enterprise-grade environment stability. This is where the role of Azure Service Fabric becomes significant. To start with, let's try to understand what Service Fabric is.

 

Mark Fussell, a senior program manager in the Microsoft Azure Service Fabric team, defines Service Fabric as the following:

Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable Microservices.

Let's dig deeper into this definition. The definition categorizes Service Fabric as a platform. A platform, in theory, is a software component capable of hosting other software applications which are built to align...