15 Migrate

 

Antonio Gulli

This chapter covers

  • The benefits of using Migrate for Anthos
  • Recommended workloads for migration
  • Migrate for Anthos architecture
  • Using Migrate for Anthos to migrate a workload
  • Best practices for Migrate for Anthos

Containers provide developers multiple advantages, including increased speed when deploying and provisioning workloads, higher resource utilization, portability, and cost efficiency compared to virtual machines (VMs).

However, many customers have several thousands of applications written over multiple years running on VM infrastructure using heritage frameworks. For these customers, it would be too time consuming and expensive to rewrite their applications. Therefore, they need tools to modernize workloads and to provide the benefits of modern cloud native environments without incurring the cost of rewriting applications from scratch. The whole value proposition is to decrease customers’ time to market during transformation projects and to augment and optimize traditional workloads with modern cloud infrastructure and services.

15.1 Migrate for Anthos benefits

15.1.1 Density

15.1.2 Cost

15.1.3 Infrastructure

15.1.4 Automation

15.1.5 Security

15.1.6 Service management

15.1.7 Day 2 operations

15.2 Recommended workloads for migration

15.3 M4A architecture

15.3.1 Migration workflow

15.3.2 From virtual machines to containers

15.3.3 A look at the Windows environment

15.3.4 A complete view of the modernization journey

15.4 Real-world scenarios