Chapter 5. Service deployments and upgrades

This chapter focuses on the operations side and discusses how Service Fabric applications are deployed and upgraded. You’ll first go through the application deployment process, covering how a Service Fabric application is packaged, staged, and deployed. Next, the discussion moves to how to perform zero-downtime upgrades of different service types, including Reliable Services and Reliable Actor services.

Service Fabric application deployment process

In earlier exercises, you have been using Visual Studio to deploy Service Fabric applications to a local cluster. The deployment process seems like a one-step operation. However, there are many steps happening behind the scenes. Figure 5-1 depicts an overview ...

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