The deployment of Service Fabric applications as resources via Azure Resource Manager is now GA(Generally Available). This is the recommended method of deploying Service Fabric applications to an Azure based Service Fabric cluster. This update makes it possible to describe applications and services in JSON and deploy them in the same Resource Manager template as your cluster. The process of application registration, provisioning, and deployment can all happen in one step. This is the best practice to manage application life cycle in your cluster.
For more information, please see our documentation.