Key Facts
Conference: DevOps Pro Europe
Topic: Migration of a Containerized Legacy Application to the Cloud
Location: Online
Date: 2023-05-23
Lecturer: Patrick Koch
Slides Link - Speaker Deck: https://speakerdeck.com/patkoch/devopspro-europe-2023
Looking forward to giving a talk tomorrow at @DevOpsEU, which is about the migration of a #legacy software application to #Azure and why #InfrastructureAsCode helped us a lot.#cloud #azurecommunity #terraform #hashicorpambassador pic.twitter.com/wN5tGTTBaV
— Patrick Koch (@PK_Koch) May 22, 2023
Ready to join online for @DevOpsEU and giving a lecture about our migration to #Azure and how #Terraform helped us!
— Patrick Koch (@PK_Koch) May 23, 2023
Cya soon!#azurecommunity #hashicorpambassador #cloudmigration pic.twitter.com/L3yWWAtNAI
Description
A classic legacy desktop application is usually not designed to operate in the cloud, not even as a container. Nevertheless, cloud adoption can’t be refused and the need for scaling resources on demand - is to be opened up for new business areas. So the decision was made to take the plunge with a MS Windows-based monolith - whose development began more than two decades ago - and to conduct the cloud migration. The start of the changeover raised more questions than answers.
• Which technology services are included in the technology stack? • What are the long-term plans? • Who is the main driver regarding the efforts toward cloud migration and scalability? • What about the obstacles? • How could IaC, especially Terraform help us?