Azure Service Fabric
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The current Service Fabric clusters are currently equipped with the MicrosoftMonitoringAgent (MMA) as the default installation. However, it is essential to note that MMA will be deprecated in August 2024, for more details refer- We're retiring the Log Analytics agent in Azure Monitor on 31 August 2024 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure. Therefore, if you are currently utilizing MMA, it is imperative to initiate the migration process to AzureMonitoringAgent (AMA).
Installation and Linking of AzureMonitoringAgent to a Log Analytics Workspace:
Create a Log Analytics Workspace (if not...
Background Information
While the our work environments became more and more complex, the need of automation is a fact. Therefore ,I made a demo on how you can automate various administrative tasks performed on a Service Fabric Cluster using the sfctl module and trigger them via Azure Function. On Function, we deploy a Docker Container that has all the necessary tools and permissions to access SF Cluster. The Azure Service Fabric command-line interface (CLI) is a command-line utility for interacting with and managing Service Fabric entities, like cluster, applications and services....
Service Fabric Explorer (SFX) is the web client used when accessing a Service Fabric (SF) cluster from a web browser. The version of SFX used is determined by the version of your SF cluster. We are providing this blog to make customers aware that running Service Fabric versions 9.1.1436.9590 and below are affected. These versions could potentially allow unwanted code execution in the cluster if an attacker can successfully convince a victim to click a malicious link and perform additional actions in the Service Fabric Explorer interface. This issue has been resolved in Service Fabric...
This article describes how to scale up a Service Fabric cluster primary node type with minimal downtime. In-place SKU upgrades are not recommended on Service Fabric cluster nodes, as such operations potentially involve data and availability loss so you can refer below for below method for scaling up a Service Fabric node type.
Note: We will be making use of PowerShell cmdlets for all the changes we are going to perform in the cluster, so in case you want to go with the ARM template approach to add a VMSS you can refer Scale up an Azure Service Fabric primary node type - Azure Service...
Background Information
To prevent unauthorized access to a Service Fabric cluster, you must secure the cluster. Security is especially important when the cluster runs production workloads. This article describes how to configure node-to-node and client-to-node security by using Windows security, where gMSA is the preferred security model.
A standalone Managed Service Account (sMSA) is a managed domain account that provides automatic password management, simplified service principal name (SPN) management and the ability to delegate the management to other administrators.
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Service Fabric Explorer (SFX) is an open-source tool for inspecting and managing Azure Service Fabric clusters. Service Fabric Explorer is a desktop application for Windows, macOS and Linux. To launch SFX in a web browser, browse to the cluster's HTTP management endpoint from any browser - for example https://clusterFQDN:19080. Service Fabric explorer may not load for numerous reasons. Most frequent reasons could be access denied while trying to access or unable to choose the right certificate. Following steps provide some useful insights on investigation steps and mitigations to be...