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version: "8.2.0.0"
license: MIT License
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# azure-servicefabric — Microsoft Azure Service Fabric Client Library for Python

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 1.8M/mo

## What it is and what it does

This is the Microsoft Azure Service Fabric client library, providing Python bindings to interact with Azure Service Fabric clusters via REST APIs. It allows you to programmatically deploy, manage, and monitor applications and services running on Service Fabric infrastructure, including operations for cluster upgrades, application lifecycle management, health monitoring, and load balancing configuration.

The library wraps Azure's Service Fabric management APIs and exposes them through Python classes and methods. It depends on msrest for HTTP communication and azure-common for shared Azure SDK utilities. The package is classified as production-stable and supports multiple Python versions from 2.7 through 3.9, though the last release dates to 2021-12-14.

Use it for:

- Automate Service Fabric cluster upgrades and validation as part of infrastructure-as-code workflows
- Deploy and manage microservices applications across Service Fabric clusters programmatically
- Monitor application health, partition load, and node status through cluster queries
- Update service configurations, scaling policies, and placement constraints without manual portal access
- Integrate Service Fabric operations into CI/CD pipelines for automated application lifecycle management

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Client library for programmatically managing Azure Service Fabric clusters, applications, and services through REST APIs.

Yes, if you are building Python tooling for Azure Service Fabric. The library is production-stable, has low install friction, and carries a permissive MIT license. However, the last release was in 2021-12-14; verify that its Python version support and API coverage meet your current needs before committing to a dependency on it.

## Install

pip install azure-servicefabric
uv add azure-servicefabric
poetry add azure-servicefabric

## Installing azure-servicefabric

Before you install: Low install friction with three lightweight runtime dependencies (msrest, azure-common, azure-nspkg). Actively maintained with recent commits; repository remains active despite the last release dating to 2021-12-14.

License in practice: MIT License permits commercial and private use with minimal restrictions; you may use, modify, and distribute this library freely provided you include the license notice.

Quickstart:

pip install azure-servicefabric

from azure.servicefabric import ServiceFabricClient
from msrest.authentication import BasicAuthentication

client = ServiceFabricClient(endpoint='https://cluster-endpoint',
                             authentication=BasicAuthentication('user', 'pass'))

Requires a running Service Fabric cluster endpoint and valid authentication credentials to connect.

Verify before relying:

- Whether Python 2.7 and 3.5 support claims remain accurate given the last release date of 2021-12-14
- Current compatibility with Python versions beyond 3.9 listed in classifiers
- Whether the API surface and operations documented in the release history remain current for your use case

## Package facts

- License: MIT License (permissive)
- Python support: unspecified
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 1.8M/month (top 5,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

azure service fabric client, service fabric cluster management, azure fabric deployment, service fabric python sdk, azure cluster orchestration, fabric application management, service fabric rest api, azure-sdk, cluster-management, infrastructure-as-code

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