Service Fabric, as a hosting platform for Microservices, does not interfere in the implementation of the service. On top of this, it also lets services decide on the communication channels they want to open. These channels are addressed as service endpoints. During service initiation, Service Fabric provides the opportunity for the services to set up the endpoints for incoming requests on any protocol or communication stack. The endpoints are defined according to common industry standards, that is IP:Port. It is possible that multiple service instances share a single host process. In which case, they either have to use different ports or a port sharing mechanism. This will ensure that every service instance is uniquely addressable: