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Migrate Cloud Foundry Applications to Amazon EKS

Solution for Migration and Upgrade

KAOPS migrates Cloud Foundry applications to AWS

Cloud Foundry

Cloud Foundry (CF) was a great CI/CD platform for running apps in virtual machines (VMs). CF was used by many companies to produce 100,000s of applications. Now, Cloud Foundry is entering its end of life (EOL) phase, and these companies need a transition plan. 


CF Migration Challenge

IT wants to move CF apps to the AWS and Amazon EKS modern container management, which might require all the app developers to abandon CF and learn Kubernetes and EKS. Retraining 100s or 1000s of app developers is costly and disruptive. 


CF Migration Solution

Recent KAOPS innovation allows CF app developers to keep their CF experience and result in apps running in AWS/Amazon EKS, the preferred IT environment. This satisfies both app developers and IT, and allows for seamless low-cost migration to AWS and supported tooling.


With KAOPS, you can:


  • Avoid training your app developers to use Amazon EKS

  • Migrate workloads to AWS

  • Reduce datacenter footprint

  • Enable Ops to monitor and upgrade applications in EKS without the developer's involvement


 

Explore how Nethopper KAOPS can help you.

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Migration Details


Solution requirements:


To enable migration from CloudFoundry to cloud-based Kubernetes requires the following:


  • AWS/Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) cluster(s)

  • KAOPS cloud-native management platform

  • Nethopper Cloud Foundry plugin

  • Pro-services evaluation and process automation


Nethopper KAOPS enables you to:


  • Eliminate PCF licenses

  • Potentially eliminate VMware licenses (if your CF uses VMware)

  • Avoid training your CF app developers to use Amazon EKS

  • Reduce datacenter footprint

  • Migrate workloads to AWS

  • Enable Ops to monitor and upgrade applications without developer involvement.


 

How KAOPS does it


Nethopper KAOPS is a cloud-native management platform (CMP) that works with AWS/Amazon EKS, private or public. 


KAOPS uses GitOps blueprints to simplify cloud operations and deploy container workloads and cloud native tools.  Also, KAOPS has a plugin for Cloud Foundry that allows CF app developers to push apps to the AWS/Amazon EKS. 


Once an app is running in both CF and Amazon EKS, the app traffic can be routed to EKS, and the CF environment can be turned off. 


App developers can continue to use the KAOPS CF plugin to deploy, monitor, and upgrade their apps in Amazon EKS without knowing how Kubernetes works. 


Even better, IT Ops now has the capability of monitoring and operating those apps so that app developers can focus on development. 


KAOPS also integrates with many other open-source tools to secure, upgrade, alert, and monitor your Amazon EKS clusters, tools, and applications.


 

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