Migration toolkit for applications 8: Bringing modernized applications to market faster

Migration toolkit for applications 8: Bringing modernized applications to market faster Automating replatforming to Red Hat OpenShift Combining automation with intelligence Looking ahead About the authors Shaaf Syed Ramón Román Nissen Jonathan Recinos More like this Blog post Blog post Original podcast Original podcast Browse by channel Automation Artificial intelligence Open hybrid cloud Security Edge computing Infrastructure Applications Virtualization Share Application modernization is a continuous journey for enterprises, driven by the need for greater business agility, enhanced security, and cost optimization. While the benefits are clear, large-scale modernization projects can be complex, time-consuming, and require significant upfront investment. With the introduction of migration toolkit for applications 8 (MTA 8), Red Hat is helping organizations overcome these challenges by automating key parts of the modernization journey. The migration toolkit for applications has long provided tools for containerization readiness, source-code analysis, and project management. MTA 8 builds on this foundation by introducing two major new capabilities: automated replatforming and intelligent refactoring. Replatforming—migrating an application from one platform to another with minimal code changes—is a common modernization strategy that can deliver significant benefits like improved scalability, security, and cost-efficiency. However, even this approach can be time-consuming due to a number of manual, error-prone tasks. MTA 8 automates this process by generating the necessary deployment artifacts to run an application on Red Hat OpenShift. The first supported migration path is from Cloud Foundry to OpenShift, enabling users to: Discover and analyze applications: MTA connects to the source platform to identify applications and extract crucial deployment and runtime information. Generate deployment assets: Using this normalized data, MTA translates the configuration into the target platform format by leveraging Helm Charts to create deployment manifests for OpenShift. Streamline deployment: The resulting artifacts are automatically placed in a target repository, which can be picked up by CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment. This automation helps to reduce manual work and improve the ROI of application modernization projects.