How do I deploy my Azure Service Fabric application to the local cluster consistently and successfully?

Question

I am deploying and redeploying Azure Service Fabric applications in a local cluster. While initial deployment to the cluster went smoothly, redeployment results in about a 50% success rate with various intermittent errors.

Errors in the output window of Visual Studio:

• Unable to determine whether the application is installed on the cluster or not.

• Something is taking too long, the application is still not ready.

Errors in Service Fabric Explorer (SFX):

• One application instance OK, the other shows an error

  

• Error in fabric:/System/DnsService: DnsService UDP Listener is unable to start

  

• Error in fabric:/System/EventStoreService: System.Net.HttpListenerException

  

How do I deploy my application to the local cluster consistently and successfully?

Answer 1

In Visual Studio's Properties window, change the Application Debug Mode from Refresh to Remove Application.

I deployed my app 10 times in a row with no errors!

Caveat: The one disadvantage to this solution is that if you remove your local cluster and then redeploy, Service Fabric Explorer (SFX) will throw several errors for a few minutes such as Get cluster upgrade progress failed