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Azure Kubernetes Service vs Azure Service Fabric: What are the differences?
Azure Kubernetes Service: Simplify Kubernetes management, deployment, and operations. Fully managed Kubernetes container orchestration service on Microsoft Azure; Azure Service Fabric: Distributed systems platform that simplifies build, package, deploy, and management of scalable microservices apps. Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices. Service Fabric addresses the significant challenges in developing and managing cloud apps.
Azure Kubernetes Service belongs to "Containers as a Service" category of the tech stack, while Azure Service Fabric can be primarily classified under "Microservices Tools".
Some of the features offered by Azure Kubernetes Service are:
- Deploy and manage Kubernetes with ease
- Scale and run applications with confidence
- Secure your Kubernetes environment
On the other hand, Azure Service Fabric provides the following key features:
- Simplify microservices development and application lifecycle management
- Reliably scale and orchestrate containers and microservices
- Data-aware platform for low-latency, high-throughput workloads with stateful containers or microservices
Azure Service Fabric is an open source tool with 2.57K GitHub stars and 304 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Azure Service Fabric's open source repository on GitHub.
Cuemby, Veris, and Universal Electronics Inc. are some of the popular companies that use Azure Kubernetes Service, whereas Azure Service Fabric is used by Starbucks, OneWire, and eVestor. Azure Kubernetes Service has a broader approval, being mentioned in 10 company stacks & 9 developers stacks; compared to Azure Service Fabric, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
Hi,
We have a requirement to develop a few web services which mostly interact with each other. The solution has to be deployed in both the Azure cloud and also On-premise. This is because the on-premise consumers will not have access to the internet and we want to keep it completely independent. The solution we are planning to go with is Service fabric. It allows both cloud & On-Premise deployment and comes with orchestration, monitoring, and other things. Can you share your experience with a similar scenario or implementation or some feedback about this approach?. Thanks.
Hi Sabarish,
If you are deploying the whole solution on both AKS and on-premise, perhaps you can use Azure AKS and Azure Arc to jointly manage both AKS and your ad-hoc customized on-premise Kubernetes. Azure Arc is still in Preview, but I guess it would fit your needs. If you are just deploying some of the services in each environment this would no be your solution.
Pros of Azure Kubernetes Service
Pros of Azure Service Fabric
- Intelligent, fast, reliable5
- Runs most of Azure core services4
- Reliability3
- Superior programming models3
- More reliable than Kubernetes3
- Open source3
- Quickest recovery and healing in the world2
- Deploy anywhere1
- Is data storage technology1
- Battle hardened in Azure > 10 Years1
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