Chapter 4. Hands-on with Service Fabric – Guest Executables

Service Fabric as a platform supports multiple programming models, each of which is best suited for specific scenarios. Each programming model offers different levels of integration with the underlying management framework. Better integration leads to more automation and fewer overheads. Picking the right programming model for your application or service is the key to efficiently utilizing the capabilities of Service Fabric as a hosting platform. Let's take a deeper look into these programming models.

To start with, let's look at the least integrated hosting option – Guest Executables. Native Windows applications or application code using Node.js or Java can be hosted on Service Fabric as a Guest Executable. These executables can be packaged and pushed to a Service Fabric cluster like any other services. As the cluster manager has minimal knowledge about the executable, features such as custom health monitoring, load reporting, state...