Embedding shared XML in Service Fabric Application Manifest

Question

We are using Service Fabric framework with .net Core. One of the things which started to become a bit problematic is some of our services / applications need the same parameters - which we're retyping for each of the application manifests.

Is there a way of sharing an XML snippet where you can reference in the application manifest / so the Service Fabric Applications which are using the same parameters can just reference that shared snippet?

Answer 1

AFAIK, there is not way to provide the parameters on separate files, but you could update the default Deploy-FabricApplication.ps1 script to do so.

In you case you options are:

• Create separate files and create a script to merge it before deployment.
• Use a CI/CD process to do the configuration values and inject the values as shown here
• Pass the shared values as JSON as a single parameter like shown here
• Use a configuration server like Azure KeyVault and the applications load from there.

Is likely to doable in many other different ways, shouldn't be that difficult.