Migrating Workloads to Cloud: 10-Wk Implementation

Proficient in the open-source Cloud Foundry technology and its commercial distributions, Altoros has emerged as one of the largest teams of Cloud Foundry specialists in the market.

Agenda

Week 1. Planning and Evaluation:

• Gather requirements and determine objectives.
• Evaluate existing infrastructure, services, apps, workflows, and overall technology choices.
• Scope and backlog planning, setting the priorities
• Suggest improvements, if necessary.

Week 2–4. Prepare a new cloud environment:

• Enable Cloud Foundry on Microsoft Azure.
• Provide cloud services: load balancing, databases, message queues, etc.
• Provide high availability to ensure smooth migration and zero downtime, using such best practices as blue-green deployment.

Week 5. Logging and monitoring:

• Implementing logging and monitoring solutions or reconfiguring the existing ones.

Week 6–8. Refactoring:

• Assess portability of an application
• Refactor applications according to the 12-factor principles towards a cloud-native microservices pattern if needed
• Decouple monolith apps into a microservices-based application, whenever a more profound transformation of the customer’s development lifecycle is required.

Week 9–11. Migration:

• Setup of CI/CD pipelines to automate application migration to a new environment and reproducible delivery of application changes to production
• Gather and analyze the most important data and reconfigure logging and monitoring according to it.

Deliverables

• A strategic plan on the running workload migration to a new environment using best practices.
• Highly available Cloud Foundry installation on Microsoft Azure.
• Implemented logging and monitoring solution.
• Cloud-native application portfolio deployed in Cloud Foundry.
• CI/CD pipelines, which automate further application migration and reproducible delivery of application changes to production.