Now that we understand what Service Fabric is, let's look at the advantages of using it as a platform to host Microservices.

As discussed in the earlier section in this chapter, Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform used to build hyperscalable, reliable, and easily managed applications for the cloud. The following figure mentioned in MSDN, provides a good overview of capabilities of Service Fabric as a hosting platform for Microservices:

Apart from the capabilities of Service Fabric to manage the application lifecycle for Microservices, the preceding diagram provides an important aspect of its ability to be deployed across heterogeneous environments. We will talk about this in detail in later sections of this chapter. Let's now dive deeper in to few of the key features of Service Fabric which make it an ideal platform to build a Microservice-based applications.