I have .NET Core Azure Service Fabric application and I want to deploy it to my
Ubuntu Linux server.
There is tutorial for Windows Server Deployment
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-fabric/service-fabric-cluster-creation-for-windows-server
There is also tutorial for Azure Linux deployment
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-fabric/service-fabric-tutorial-create-vnet-and-linux-cluster
Is it possible to run ASF on-premise on Linux?
Nope, see the docs:
Standalone clusters currently aren't supported for Linux. Linux is supported on one-box for development and Azure Linux multi-machine clusters.
and
Supported operating systems for standalone clusters
You are able to create clusters on VMs or computers running these operating systems (Linux is not yet supported):
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server 2016
As of Dec 2018, Service Fabric for Linux is available on-premises through BOSH. See:
https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2018/12/04/announcing-service-fabric-provider-bosh/
https://starkandwayne.com/blog/deploying-microsoft-service-fabric-via-bosh/
https://github.com/starkandwayne/service-fabric-boshrelease
Below is copied from: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/deploy-service-fabric-ubuntu-clusters-on-premises-using-bosh/ :
Service Fabric integration with Bosh provides the following:
Define and deploy infrastructure necessary for Service Fabric on any environment including on-premise (VMWare) and the three major public clouds (Azure, GCP, AWS)
Define and deploy Service Fabric Ubuntu clusters on any environment
Perform zero-downtime rolling upgrades of Service Fabric and the OS
Monitor health of the infrastructure and reattach any downed VMs or disks back to the cluster
Fully open source and collaboration to shape the future of this release is welcome!
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I am trying to search for an alternative of Amazon Appstream2.0 and Amazon Workspace(DAAS) in Azure. Those services in Amazon really provide the solution for remote purpose but I am really handy with azure. If I can get the solution in azure I can move to azure for the solution.
I believe there is no native service similar to Amazon Appstream2.0 in Azure.
Cloud compare also doesn't show any alternatives:
EDIT:
As #Pradyumna mentioned substitute of Amazon Workspace in Azure Cloud could be Window Virtual Desktop(WVD).
Here's what you can do when you run Windows Virtual Desktop on Azure:
Set up a multi-session Windows 10 deployment that delivers a full Windows 10 with scalability
Virtualize Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise and optimize it to run in multi-user virtual scenarios
Provide Windows 7 virtual desktops with free Extended Security Updates
Bring your existing Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and Windows Server desktops and apps to any computer
Virtualize both desktops and apps Manage
Windows 10, Windows Server, and Windows 7 desktops and apps with a unified management experience
Thank you very much for your help with the previous questions
Deploying Windows Containers (created with Docker) into Azure Container Service
Windows Container vs Docker Container and Azure Container Services/Kubernetes cluster with Linux OS
I am continuing my research and somewhat at a standstill as I try to follow the instructions of the following article that explains how to create CI/CD pipeline to deploy a multi-container application.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-service/dcos-swarm/container-service-docker-swarm-setup-ci-cd
The code sample that is referenced here is built for the Linux application, and I am not able to run it or create Docker container out of it.
Thus, I have following questions (those questions could be all over the place, my apologies for that)
When I create a .Net Core Web API on Windows 2016 server, is there any possibility for me to create an application that I could deploy to a Linux environment? (portable .NET Core Web API application)
When I would like to take advantage of CI/CD pipeline using Visual Studio Team Services, do I really need to create Azure Container Service with Docker Swarm? As far as I understand ACS is a Linux based environment whereas I would create Windows based docker containers on Windows Server 2016
Do I really need to be concerned with ACS and SSH tunnel when dealing with Windows Server 2016 based docker containers if I could easily deploy those containers to a Kubernetes cluster with Windows nodes
Is there an alternative way for me to deploy docker containers created on Windows Server 2016 using Full CI/CD pipeline to Visual Studio Team Services without using the Linux based SSH tunnel/ACS
Thank you very much for your generous input
Mikhail
1.When I create a .Net Core Web API on Windows 2016 server, is there any
possibility for me to create an application that I could deploy to a
Linux environment?
Yes, .Net core is a general purpose development platform maintained by Microsoft and the .NET community on GitHub. It is cross-platform, supporting Windows, macOS and Linux, and can be used in device, cloud, and embedded/IoT scenarios. So we can deploy .net core web api app on Linux environment.
Maybe we can refer to this link.
2.When I would like to take advantage of CI/CD pipeline using Visual
Studio Team Services, do I really need to create Azure Container
Service with Docker Swarm?
No, creating a CI/CD pipeline on Azure Container service with kubernetes and visual studio team services is available. More information about VSTS and ACS k8s, please refer to this link.
3.Do I really need to be concerned with ACS and SSH tunnel when dealing with Windows Server 2016 based docker containers if I could
easily deploy those containers to a Kubernetes cluster with Windows
nodes
If you want to use VSTS to deploy your .net core container, I think we should connect to ACS cluster.
If you want to use ACS k8s, we should add kubernetes connection:
4.Is there an alternative way for me to deploy docker containers created on Windows Server 2016 using Full CI/CD pipeline to Visual
Studio Team Services without using the Linux based SSH tunnel/ACS
Do you mean you want to use ACS, but don't want to connect Linux based SSH tunnel? If I am right, we can deploy a site-to-site VPN between your on-prem network and Azure Vnet, in this way, we can connect k8s like local.
In one of our project, we have a technical constraint to use Service Fabric as platform to run applications built with Service Fabric SDK. The Service Fabric Cluster will use Windows Server 2016 for the Operating System.
However, the software also are depending on a 3rd party product that run as Docker Container running on Linux Container OS.
The Product Owner would like to have the Container to be deployed on the same Service Fabric cluster for easier management and monitoring.
It is known that Windows Server 2016 are able to run Linux Docker Container using Hyper-V Isolation Technology. How do I configure Service Fabric running on Windows Server 2016 to be able to utilize that technology and run Linux Containers?
Thank you.
Support for running Linux containers directly on WinSrv2016 is on the way. It's not here yet. Therefore you can't run them on SF yet either.
You can't have a hybrid cluster either. So at this time your options is: run two SF clusters.
I have just started exploring Azure Service Fabric & I'm finding the concepts involved a little overwhelming
Consider these 2 statements -
"Service Fabric is agnostic to the underlying hosting provider. You
can run it in Azure, you can run it on AWS, you can run it on 5
laptops - it doesn't matter."
"Azure Service Fabric for Windows Server..can be used
to..provision Service Fabric clusters in their own datacenters or
other cloud providers, and run production workloads"...any Windows Server environment...there is no real lock-in to Azure as a cloud platform
As per my understanding,
1) in Azure, app can be deployed to "Azure Service Fabric" PaaS platform.
2) On a local development machine, it can be deployed to physical or virtual machine(S) that support Azure Service Fabric SDK
3) On "other cloud providers", "Azure Service Fabric for Windows Server" has to be installed(?) on VMs before app can be deployed.
So when an app runs on Azure, it is the "Azure Service Fabric" PaaS platform but if it is deployed to any other cloud provider, it is in an IaaS mode and the maintenance of the SF infrastructure & supporting functions have to be done by deployer of the app
Is my understanding correct?
Is there any documentation on running Service Fabric on non-Azure cloud like AWS?
Can someone elaborate on the purpose of "Azure Service Fabric for Windows Server" & Azure Service Fabric SDK?
When using Azure as the cloud platform to host your Service Fabric cluster then you get some benefits from being able to setup and manage (some aspects of) your cluster directly in the Azure portal, as well as connecting it to other Azure resources such as Azure Key Vault for storing your cluster certificate securely and OMS/Azure Log Analytics for analyzing your log data from the cluster. You still get a set of IaaS resources created for you though when you set up a Service Fabric cluster in Azure, a minimum of the following IaaS resources are at least created for you:
Virtual Machine Scaleset
Public IP address
Virtual Network
Load Balancer
Storage accounts
Depending on the number of nodes and nodetypes there may be multiple instances of these. Each of the nodes are in turn a VM running (by default) Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter (you can change that in your template as well).
Running Azure Service Fabric on Azure is not really a PaaS solution, you are far to much in contact with the supporting infrastucture for that to be true. It is a mix of IaaS and PaaS I would say.
On you local development machine you can run a local development cluster that emulates running a 1 or 5 nodes cluser on you local machine. It is only intended for development and there are some features of this local cluster that will behave differently (for instance, you cannot run a reverse proxy there). https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-fabric/service-fabric-get-started
If you want to run Service Fabric on any other platform than Azure, such as an on premice data center or in another cloud platform (AWS for instance), then you should look at Create and manage a cluster running on Windows Server. You will then need to create an infrastructure similar to the infrastructure created by Azure when you create an Azure Service Fabric resource directly in Azure. You will need to create a number of VMs (or physical machines) with Windows Server 2012 R2 (or later) that are connected on the same network (virtual or physical) and you will likely need some form of load balancer. When you run Azure Service Fabric in this way you are yourself responsible for maintaining your infrastructure in terms of monitoring and maintaining them (patching the OS on your VM's, monitoring the network for vulnerabilities, etc.).
There is also a preview for running Service Fabric on Linux machines but it does not support Standalone installations yet. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-fabric/service-fabric-linux-overview.
When you have your Service Fabric cluster running on either Azure, local development cluster or as a Standalone cluster, then you could in a way consider that installation as your PaaS platform for adding new microservices.
How do I deploy an IBM worklight project on Windows Azure?
Worklight works on Windows.More details available at the link below.
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27024838
To my knowledge IBM worklight only works on Linux. This means you'll need to exclude Windows Azure Web Sites and Windows Azure Cloud Services (Web Roles, Worker Roles, VM Roles).
The only way to run Linux in Windows Azure is by using Windows Azure Virtual Machines (IaaS). The deployment of IBM worklight on Windows Azure Virtual Machines will be similar to a deployment on Amazon EC2. Follow this guide, but instead of creating the VM in Amazon EC2, create it in Windows Azure (by using the gallery for example).