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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 14. Hands-on with Service Fabric – Guest Executables

Service Fabric as a platform supports multiple programming models, each of which is best suited for specific scenarios. Each programming model offers different levels of integration with the underlying management framework. Better integration leads to more automation and fewer overheads. Picking the right programming model for your application or service is the key to efficiently utilizing the capabilities of Service Fabric as a hosting platform. Let's take a deeper look into these programming models.

To start with, let's look at the least integrated hosting option – Guest Executables. Native Windows applications or application code using Node.js or Java can be hosted on Service Fabric as a Guest Executable. These executables can be packaged and pushed to a Service Fabric cluster like any other services. As the cluster manager has minimal knowledge about the executable, features such as custom health monitoring, load reporting,...