[BUG] - No public packages for Service Fabric 10.* on Ubuntu Linux

[wilsncc]

Describe the bug
The last available version of Service Fabric on Ubuntu Linux is 9.1.1642.1; this is quite a bit behind 10.1.2319.1 and in fact it's not even the latest 9.* release. But no other packages are seemingly available from the provided apt repo (https://packages.microsoft.com/ubuntu/20.04/prod).

If I'm not mistaken, the latest versions are indeed available for Linux if you deploy a Service Fabric cluster in Azure.

Area/Component:
Packaging/release

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
N/A

Expected behavior
Packages are made available for use on Linux development machines, either for direct download or as .deb files.

Observed behavior:
Packages are not in fact directly available.

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Service Fabric Runtime Version:
9.1., 10.0.

Environment:

• Standalone or Dev cluster
• OS: Ubuntu 18.04/20.04
• Version [9.1.*, 10.0.*]

Additional context
I know Service Fabric is missing the TLC it used to get, but the Linux packages are clearly in existence. It's a shame not to just made them available. I don't mind making some pull requests myself to update the installation steps on Microsoft Learn which are only working on 16.04 (possibly not even working at all), I've already raised an issue for Azure CLI not having any working Ubuntu versions for az sf ... cluster creation commands. But it would be nice for Microsoft to make a bit more effort and just make the packages available.

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Assignees: /cc @microsoft/service-fabric-triage

[LarsKemmann]

I've had a couple of conversations now (one with a former Azure team member, one with a current SF team member) and if I'm understanding correctly, the official position at this point is: you can do managed clusters with Windows, and you can deploy Linux containers to those, but only if you develop on Windows? (I'm not quite sure how that works without onebox, so maybe the answer is no, you can only deploy EXEs now?) And there's a possibility that someday the onebox images for Linux/Mac users will be published again, but I shouldn't hold my breath? And you can deploy your own Linux clusters but good luck developing for those since there are no supported public packages for developing against them?

[jkochhar]

Currently managed clusters only support Windows but we are working on adding support for Linux and will update this thread/ our docs once that support is available. Tentative ETA is mid 2025.

[LarsKemmann]

Currently managed clusters only support Windows but we are working on adding support for Linux and will update this thread/ our docs once that support is available. Tentative ETA is mid 2025.

Thank you @jkochhar -- that's fantastic to hear! Can I assume that onebox images will be released publicly again when that happens?