Service Fabric can be considered as a universal deployment environment. Services or applications based on any programming language or even database runtimes such as MongoDB can be deployed on Service Fabric.

Service Fabric supports four types of programming models – Reliable Services, Reliable Actors, Guest Executable, and Guest Containers. These topics are covered in detail in later parts of the book. Services can be written in any programming language and deployed as executables or hosted within containers.

Microsoft ships a rich Software Development Kit (SDK) for developing, packaging, and deploying services on Service Fabric managed clusters. Apart from .NET, Service Fabric also supports a native Java SDK for Java developers working on Linux. The Java SDK is supported by the Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE).