It is scheduled for release on September 26 in the Azure Cloud. For Windows, Service Fabric is available there and as a preview for running elsewhere since April. With the offer Microsoft enables the communication between several Microservices in the cloud.

Microsoft has a public preview of Service Fabric for Linux on September 26 announced . It is then available for the opening of the Microsoft conference Ignite . Additional information about Service Fabric is expected at the event. Basically, the offering provides programming interfaces that allow microservices to communicate with each other.


Azure Service Fabric has been available as a service in Azure since the end of March. The same applies to the preview version of "Service Fabric for Windows" - the variant companies can run in their own data center or in other cloud environments. The preview of the "Service Fabric for Linux", which is now in prospect for September 26, was already announced at the time, but a precise timetable was not yet determined.

Microsoft had announced the preview of the Linux version at the Developer Fair Build in the spring . It will also initially be hosted in the Azure cloud. According to Microsoft, a version of Service Fabric for Linux suitable for operation in its own data center or in other cloud environments will follow.

Microsoft uses Service Fabric for its Azure cloud, for Skype for Business the Azure SQL database, and for Cortana, Intune, and Azure DocumentDB. Meanwhile, Service Fabric has proven itself in use for these services. Customers should now gradually gain access to the same technology that the Group uses for its services. This reflects the fact that in the medium term hybrid cloud models will prevail and customers will look for ways to move loads and applications across the infrastructure.

From the end of September, they will then be able to use Azero's Service Fabric Clusters with Linux as their host operating system and support Java applications. In the first step, Microsoft will support Ubuntu in this regard, but support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux should follow "soon".

Not only will Microsoft respond to customers running their virtual machines on the Azure Cloud on Linux, but it will also reach out to those who use other cloud environments - where Linux is much more common - or just parts outsource operations to the cloud and continue to run essential services in their own data center and Linux.

Important is Mark Russinovich CTO for Microsoft Azure, in particular the portability. In the current announcement, he explains, "Our vision is for developers to build service fabric applications on the OS of their choice and run anywhere they want. In the near future, we will provide a Linux standalone installer that will allow Service Fabric to be used outside of Azure for on-premise, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. "He also plans to place parts of the platform under an Open -Source license.