“Partition is below target replica or instance count” error after deploying service fabric application to public service fabric cluster

Question

I have created a service fabric stateless reliable service, in which i used OWIN to host a web API. When I deployed the application to the Local cluster, it worked fine and

Answer 1

I got the same issue today and besides the possible reasons mentioned by other answers, another possible reason is you are using old versions for SF runtime/SDK/library.

Please make sure your SF runtime & SDK & referenced DLLs in your project are latest!