Azure Service Fabric

Azure Service Fabric is an orchestration platform from Microsoft that can be used to deploy, manage, and package microservices and containers. It is similar to Docker Cloud and Kubernetes, where Service Fabric is fully bound to the Azure platform.

The difference between the three is that Service Fabric is the only one that is fully bound to the Azure Platform. Examples of this tight integration with the Azure platform includes the fact that Azure Service Fabric can use API Management, Event Hub, and IoT Hub out of the box as stateless gateways. When using other providers, stateless gateways are mostly built manually. You can import Docker images in Azure Fabric as well, but the orchestration of the Docker containers ...

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