Migrating Service Fabric Sample Voting App to ASP.NET Core

Service Fabric is emerging as popular hosting model for microservices, due to its scalability, resilience, and powerful service orchestration capabilities. The fact that it can run anywhere (Azure, other cloud providers, and on-prem) makes for a compelling story, particularly when considering that single cluster can be stretched across multiple locations (see this great blog post by my Mexia colleagues talking about a proof-of-concept hybrid cluster). In my recent interview for SSW TV, I talk about Service Fabric being “PaaS for DevOps”.

Recently Microsoft introduced support for ASP.NET Core stateless services. This is especially relevant when building Service Fabric application in Visual Studio 2017 which has built-in support for .NET Core. However, it can be a bit tricky trying to migrate existing .NET Web API services to ASP.NET Core – which is the subject of this post.

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