How to shut down a local instance of Azure Service Fabric?

Question

Last week I started a local instance of azure service fabric and was able to play with the nodes and services on my machine locally. Visual studio set up a cluster and I figured that it would close on shutdown. Today I'm having an issue where FabicGateway.exe and Fabric.exe are running on my computer in the background. These still persisted when i deleted the applications from the Service Fabric Explorer at my local host address.

How do i shut down the service fabric so that it doesn't run in the background at my computers startup? Any ideas or help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Are you using the latest version of the SDK? I believe they fixed this in the newest release of the SDK (6th of May 2016), version 2.0.217 . In the release notes they state:

The FabricHost service was incorrectly marked as autostart for local development clusters which would cause the cluster to be restarted on reboot, and resetting or re-creating the local development cluster would reset FabricHost to autostart mode. This would lead to local resource consumption and was frequently undesired for the local cluster environment. Changes were made to support non-autostart for local development environments and not to override user choice here.

otherwise you can use the manager to close a cluster. The manager is located at: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Service Fabric\Tools\ServiceFabricLocalClusterManager