Azure Kubernetes Service vs Azure Service Fabric

Overview

Azure Service Fabric

Stacks103

Followers284

Votes26

GitHub Stars3.0K

Forks399

Azure Kubernetes Service

Stacks386

Followers351

Votes0

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.

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Advice on Azure Service Fabric, Azure Kubernetes Service

Sabarish

Dec 17, 2019

Needs advice

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.

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Detailed Comparison

Azure Service Fabric	Azure Kubernetes Service
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.	Deploy and manage containerized applications more easily with a fully managed Kubernetes service. It offers serverless Kubernetes, an integrated continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) experience, and enterprise-grade security and governance. Unite your development and operations teams on a single platform to rapidly build, deliver, and scale applications with confidence.
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; Run anything – your choice of languages and programming models; Run anywhere – supports Windows/Linux in Azure, on-premises, or other clouds; Scales up to thousands of machines	Deploy and manage Kubernetes with ease; Scale and run applications with confidence; Secure your Kubernetes environment; Accelerate containerized application development; Work how you want with open-source tools and APIs; Set up CI/CD in a few clicks
Statistics
GitHub Stars 3.0K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 399	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 103	Stacks 386
Followers 284	Followers 351
Votes 26	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 5 Intelligent, fast, reliable 4 Runs most of Azure core services 3 More reliable than Kubernetes 3 Reliability 3 Open source	No community feedback yet
Integrations
No integrations available	Kubernetes Azure Container Registry

What are some alternatives to Azure Service Fabric, Azure Kubernetes Service?

Amazon EC2 Container Service

Amazon EC2 Container Service lets you launch and stop container-enabled applications with simple API calls, allows you to query the state of your cluster from a centralized service, and gives you access to many familiar Amazon EC2 features like security groups, EBS volumes and IAM roles.

Google Kubernetes Engine

Container Engine takes care of provisioning and maintaining the underlying virtual machine cluster, scaling your application, and operational logistics like logging, monitoring, and health management.

Istio

Istio is an open platform for providing a uniform way to integrate microservices, manage traffic flow across microservices, enforce policies and aggregate telemetry data. Istio's control plane provides an abstraction layer over the underlying cluster management platform, such as Kubernetes, Mesos, etc.

Containerum

Containerum is built to aid cluster management, teamwork and resource allocation. Containerum runs on top of any Kubernetes cluster and provides a friendly Web UI for cluster management.

Moleculer

It is a fault tolerant framework. It has built-in load balancer, circuit breaker, retries, timeout and bulkhead features. It is open source and free of charge project.

Azure Container Service

Azure Container Service optimizes the configuration of popular open source tools and technologies specifically for Azure. You get an open solution that offers portability for both your containers and your application configuration. You select the size, the number of hosts, and choice of orchestrator tools, and Container Service handles everything else.

Docker Cloud

Docker Cloud is the best way to deploy and manage Dockerized applications. Docker Cloud makes it easy for new Docker users to manage and deploy the full spectrum of applications, from single container apps to distributed microservices stacks, to any cloud or on-premises infrastructure.

Express Gateway

A cloud-native microservices gateway completely configurable and extensible through JavaScript/Node.js built for ALL platforms and languages. Enterprise features are FREE thanks to the power of 3K+ ExpressJS battle hardened modules.

ArangoDB Foxx

It is a JavaScript framework for writing data-centric HTTP microservices that run directly inside of ArangoDB.

Dapr

It is a portable, event-driven runtime that makes it easy for developers to build resilient, stateless and stateful microservices that run on the cloud and edge and embraces the diversity of languages and developer frameworks.

Related Comparisons

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.

Azure Kubernetes Service vs Azure Service Fabric