Chapter 5 Service Deployments and Upgrades

This chapter focuses on the operations side and discusses how Service Fabric applications are deployed and upgraded. First it goes through the application-deployment process, covering how a Service Fabric application is packaged, staged, and deployed. Next, the discussion moves to performing zero-downtime upgrades of different service types, including reliable services and reliable actor services. This chapter also lays the foundation for the second part of the book, which is dedicated to DevOps topics.

The Service Fabric Application-Deployment Process

In earlier chapters, you used Visual Studio to deploy Service Fabric applications to a local cluster. The deployment process seems like a one-step operation. ...

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