How to setup and configure service fabric clusters?

Question

I am reading the docs about service fabric and was also interested to review how to setup a cluster with multiple VM's, but so far I can only guess based on the devclustersetup.ps1 / it's xml file, but I didn't see any docs on it which explains the various configurations and/or API's. What I would need is how to set up a simple cluster, how to add/remove nodes, monitoring, setting up resource constraints per node etc so I can setup a sample cluster and test few things.

So far I've done these:

• installed VC runtime ( as web pi installer fails without it )
• installed service fabric and the SDK ( got the installer out of the web pi installers )
• tried to change the sample xml, adding multiple hosts, but then with that I ran into the IPv6 only issue in my setup ( see my other question ), so it didnt work out

Thanks

Answer 1

We are working on NanoServer support for Service Fabric. (I am unable to respond to the comment asking about it because I apparently don't have enough points).

Answer 2

Setting up a multi-machine cluster is not supported at this time so you won't find any documentation explaining how to do it.

There will be a public preview of the service in Azure later this year and the platform will be available as part of Windows Server 2016 for on-premise deployments. As those options become available, there will be plenty of guidance explaining how to setup and manage your cluster.

UPDATE: 2016-03-31

Standalone installation on-prem or in another cloud is now available in public preview for Windows Server 2012 R2 and up.