# microsoft/service-fabric

Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform for packaging, deploying, and managing stateless and stateful distributed applications and containers at large scale.

Repository: https://github.com/microsoft/service-fabric
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/service-fabric
Homepage: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-fabric/
Language: C++
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: cloud-native, containers, orchestration, distributed-systems, cloud-computing, microservices
Last push: 2026-08-17T18:21:10+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 76/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3101, "days_push": 16, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3065, forks 400 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:41.371061+00:00)

## What it is
Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform for packaging, deploying, and managing stateless and stateful microservices and containers at large scale. It runs on Windows and Linux across any cloud, datacenter, or local development machine, and includes tooling such as the Service Fabric CLI and SDKs for .NET and Java.

## Use cases
- orchestrate stateful and stateless microservices at scale
- deploy and manage containerized applications across clusters
- run a distributed applications platform on-premises or in any cloud
- build reliable services with built-in state management and failover
- perform rolling upgrades of distributed applications with zero downtime
- deploy a managed Service Fabric cluster with ARM templates
- run a local development cluster on a laptop for microservices testing

## When to choose
- you need stateful microservices with built-in replication, failover, and lifecycle management
- you want a single platform to run both containers and guest executables side by side
- you need to run the same distributed platform across Azure, other clouds, on-premises datacenters, and developer laptops
- you require fine-grained control over cluster placement, upgrades, and health monitoring

## When to avoid
- you only need simple container orchestration without stateful service support - Kubernetes may be a better fit
- your team is not prepared for the operational complexity of a large-scale distributed systems platform
- you depend heavily on the Kubernetes ecosystem and its tooling
- you want a fully serverless experience with no cluster management at all

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: container-orchestration, microservices, deployment, scheduling, self-hosted, monitoring
- domain: microservices, cloud-computing, infrastructure-as-code
- platform: windows, cross-platform, cloud, self-hosted
- tags: distributed-systems-platform, stateful-services, reliable-services, cluster-management, azure, container-deployment, rolling-upgrades, c-plus-plus-runtime, containers, devops, linux, docker

## Member repositories
- microsoft/service-fabric (main) score 76

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:41.371061+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:28:17.119369+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/microsoft/service-fabric (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:41.371061+00:00, sha 53aee75b113d)
  - homepage: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-fabric/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:43:37.277050+00:00, sha b9dfca841870)
  - site_page: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-fabric/quickstart-managed-cluster-template (fetched 2026-08-29T09:43:37.296294+00:00, sha 761dc43f23a5)
  - site_page: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-fabric/service-fabric-quickstart-dotnet (fetched 2026-08-29T09:43:37.297934+00:00, sha 71a317c59594)
  - site_page: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-fabric/service-fabric-quickstart-containers (fetched 2026-08-29T09:43:37.299699+00:00, sha 7016cac1ed23)
  - site_page: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/faq/internet-explorer-microsoft-edge (fetched 2026-08-29T09:43:37.286061+00:00, sha c363b2f43d4b)
  - site_page: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-fabric/service-fabric-content-roadmap (fetched 2026-08-29T09:43:37.288165+00:00, sha b8f5beaa4838)
  - site_page: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-fabric/service-fabric-cli (fetched 2026-08-29T09:43:37.290655+00:00, sha e4eb8f3d4a39)
  - site_page: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-fabric/overview-managed-cluster (fetched 2026-08-29T09:43:37.292603+00:00, sha 261cc465dde4)
  - site_page: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-fabric/faq-managed-cluster (fetched 2026-08-29T09:43:37.294367+00:00, sha a5f7b803e303)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.