Migrate Cloud Foundry Applications to Kubernetes
Solution for Migration and Upgrade
KAOPS modernizes Cloud Foundry applications
Cloud Foundry
Cloud Foundry (CF) was Pivotal's CI/CD platform for running applications in virtual machines (VMs). Many companies leveraged CF to develop and deploy hundreds of thousands of applications
The Rise of Kubernetes
The landscape of container orchestration has shifted dramatically with the rise of Kubernetes. As major cloud providers began offering their own managed Kubernetes services, the industry's focus has largely pivoted away from Cloud Foundry.
CF EOL
CF has entered its end-of-life (EOL) phase, prompting organizations that heavily invested in the platform to seek transition strategies
The CF Migration Challenge
While IT wants to move these apps to the cloud and modern Kubernetes container management, it might require all the app developers to abandon CF and learn Kubernetes. Retraining 100s or 1000s of app developers is costly and disruptive.
The CF Migration Solution
Recent KAOPS innovation allows CF App developers to keep their CF experience and result in apps running in Kubernetes, the preferred IT environment. This satisfies both app developers and IT, and allows for seamless low-cost migration to the cloud and supported tooling.
With KAOPS, you can:
Avoid training your app developers to use Kubernetes
Reduce datacenter footprint
Migrate workloads to cloud or hybrid cloud
Enable Ops to monitor and upgrade applications without developer involvement.
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Migration Details
Solution requirements:
To enable migration from Cloud Foundry to cloud-based Kubernetes requires the following:
Kubernetes environment
KAOPS (a cloud-native management platform)
Nethopper Cloud Foundry plugin
Pro-services evaluation and process automation
KAOPS enables you to:
Eliminate PCF licenses
Potentially eliminate VMware licenses (if CF uses VMware)
Avoid training your CF app developers to use Kubernetes
Reduce datacenter footprint
Migrate workloads to cloud or hybrid cloud
Enable Ops to monitor and upgrade applications without developer involvement.
How KAOPS does it
KAOPS is a cloud-native management platform (CMP) that works with any cloud or Kubernetes, private or public.
KAOPS uses GitOps blueprints to simplify cloud operations and deploy container workloads and cloud native tools. KAOPS also has a plugin for Cloud Foundry that allows CF app developers to push apps to the cloud and Kubernetes they choose.
Once an app is running in both CF and Kubernetes, the app traffic can be routed to Kubernetes, 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 Kubernetes 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.
Nethopper KAOPS integrates with many other open source tools to secure, upgrade, alert, and monitor your cloud-native landscape.