Service Fabric SetupEntryPoint

Question

I have a Guest Executable that needs to access a shared drive (Azure Files). My guest executable is setup in of the ServiceManifest.xml. I\'ve tried adding a to launch a \"mys

Answer 1

SetupEntryPoint is the right place to launch startup tasks. However, depending on what your startup tasks are you may need to specify a RunAsPolicy within the ApplicationManifest.xml.

Here is what I did:

Created a BAT file called 'setup.bat' and added it to my guest executable code folder. Inside this setup.bat file I am doing a NET USE statement to map a network drive to Azure Files share folder.

I added this:

  
    setup.bat
    
  

to the ServiceManifest node.

into the ServiceManifestImport node...

Then added the following

into the ApplicationManifest after the DefaultServices node. It's important that the Principals node comes after the DefaultServices node. Not sure why but it will make it impossible to deploy the application to your cluster.