Service Fabric Overview
Service Fabric is a complete platform with application runtimes for easily building microservices on public Azure, private clouds, on-premise, and other configurations.
Linux Support
Per Microsoft’s current plans, Linux support will be available in 2016. The Service Fabric functionality on Linux will be almost a hundred percent identical.
Service Fabric includes system services that take care of everything that is important for resilient and scalable microservices environments. Cluster management, resource scheduling, service registry and discovery, failover, deployment, no-downtime rolling upgrades, and safe rollbacks are just some of the platform’s features. The key here is that those services are part of Service Fabric itself and do not need to be installed or configured separately—the integration has been done for us.