Patterns and Pains of Migrating Legacy Applications to Kubernetes
Running applications on Kubernetes can provide a lot of benefits: more dev speed, lower ops costs, and a higher elasticity & resiliency in production. Kubernetes is the place to be for cloud native ap …
| Talk Title | Patterns and Pains of Migrating Legacy Applications to Kubernetes |
| Speakers | Josef Adersberger (CTO, QAware), Robert Bichler (Project Manager, Allianz Germany), Michael Frank (Software Architect, QAware) |
| Conference | Open Source Summit North America |
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| Location | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| Date | Aug 27-31, 2018 |
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Running applications on Kubernetes can provide a lot of benefits: more dev speed, lower ops costs, and a higher elasticity & resiliency in production. Kubernetes is the place to be for cloud native apps. But what to do if you’ve no shiny new cloud native apps but a whole bunch of JEE legacy systems? No chance to leverage the advantages of Kubernetes? Yes you can!We’re facing the challenge of migrating hundreds of JEE legacy applications of a German blue chip company onto a Kubernetes cluster within one year.The talk will be about the lessons we’ve learned - the best practices and pitfalls we’ve discovered along our way.
