how to create a stateless service at runtime on local service fabric server

Question

I'm trying to create instances of stateless services on demand at runtime without additonal entries about types at manifest file.

At the begging I thought, that I can use

using (FabricRuntime fabricRuntime = FabricRuntime.Create())
      {
          fabricRuntime.RegisterServiceType("ServiceType", typeof(Service));
      }

and

ServiceRuntime.RegisterServiceAsync("ServiceType", context => new Service(context)).GetAwaiter().GetResult();

Howerver I still have to register service type or service template at manifest file, but that's beside the point.

Now, I wonder if it is possible to create instance of stateless service without metadata at manifest or powershell scripts? Just write services programmatically?

Answer 1

You probably can, if you use the Docker compose approach. Create containers, instead of Service Fabric applications.

Use the REST api to deploy dynamically generated docker-compose.yml files to create instances.