Microsoft Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform engineered for hosting hyperscale Microservices. The addressed challenges around managing Microservices are packaging, deployment, scaling, upgrading, and so on. Apart from the rich graphical user interface exposed through Azure Portal and the management APIs, Service Fabric clusters can also be managed using Windows PowerShell cmdlets. This is the preferred mechanism for automating the management process.
Service Fabric supports automation of most of its application lifecycle management tasks. These tasks include deploying, upgrading, removing, and testing Azure Service Fabric applications. Following are the steps to prepare your machine to execute Windows PowerShell cmdlets to manage a Service Fabric cluster:
- Install the Service Fabric SDK, runtime, and tools which include the PowerShell modules. The SDK currently supports Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, Windows Server...