Modernization

Transform applications and infrastructure to leverage cloud capabilities and adopt cloud-native development for enhanced engineering practices.

How does modernization help developers?

Modernization improves performance, enhances user experience, saves costs, enhances security, improves integration and compatibility, and ensures regulatory compliance. It helps organizations stay competitive, improve operational efficiency, and provide better experiences for their users.

Decrease cost

Reduce costs by enhancing efficiency, scalability, and security, while also lowering maintenance and infrastructure expenses.

Increase reliability

Reduce downtime with elastic infrastructure, observability, security at cluster and application level, disaster recovery, and scalability.

Increase scalability

Achieve elastic scalability by containerizing workloads or running them alongside containers for optimal resource utilization.

Improve security

Security is ensured through regular updates, enhanced features, better access controls, compliance, automation, encryption, and monitoring.

Boost engineering productivity

Streamline workflows, automate tasks, and improve collaboration with better information access, remote work, and employee training.

Improve consumer experience

Enable faster response times, personalization, omni-channel support, improved offerings, enhanced security, privacy, and continuous improvement.

Get started with modernization

Modernizing applications is essential to stay competitive and meet the demands of modern users. Several approaches and technologies have emerged to help organizations modernize their applications, ranging from rehosting and re-platforming to refactoring and rebuilding. Each option offers unique benefits and challenges, allowing businesses to choose the best strategy based on their specific needs and goals.

Replatform to Container Platform

Moving to a container platform offers self-healing, auto-scaling, bin-packing, and service discovery. This involves packaging applications into containers for automated recovery, scaling, efficient resource usage, and streamlined service communication, improving overall application management.

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Rehost VMs alongside containers on OpenShift

Whether you are running applications that need an operating system or are on a slow path to modernize or struggling to add security compliances, running VMs on the same cluster as your container applications can simplify a lot of challenges.

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Modernize legacy applications

Faster, safer legacy application modernization with migration toolkit for applications (MTA). MTA can analyze code, check for container readiness, reports for potential issues and support for various migration paths.

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Refactor to microservices

Modernizing into microservices involves breaking down a larger application into smaller, more manageable pieces of code that communicate through APIs. This approach enables multiple team members to work on different parts of the architecture simultaneously, accelerating development. It offers scalability, flexibility, and resilience, making it an ideal approach for building modern applications.

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Rehost to public cloud

Red Hat OpenShift offers many environments, and your Development and Operations efforts are portable between them. That means you can start locally on your own machine and then simply deploy to a cloud-based solution in the future with no changes needed.

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Modernize at your own pace

Modernization can be daunting for engineering teams, often viewed as a risky process where existing services might break or fail to meet expectations. Legacy systems gradually become more burdensome, with enterprise support from software vendors falling short. However, the good news is that modernization doesn't have to be an all-or-nothing endeavor.

Many teams embark on long-term roadmaps spanning years to phase out legacy software and dependencies, leveraging cloud-native technologies along a slow, deliberate path.

Rehosting

Rehosting virtual machines to OpenShift is a process that involves moving existing virtual machines (VMs) from a traditional virtualization environment to the OpenShift Container Platform, which is based on Kubernetes.
This migration allows organizations to modernize their applications and infrastructure by taking advantage of the benefits of containerization and orchestration.

Re-engineer and refactor

Re-engineering updates an application's architecture and functionality, while refactoring improves its internal structure without changing external behavior. Both are crucial for modernization, ensuring applications remain competitive and adaptable. Re-engineering targets outdated or inefficient applications, while refactoring is part of regular maintenance. Both help meet evolving user and business needs in a changing technological landscape.

Change endpoints

As the final step, changing endpoints involves updating the connections and interfaces used by the application to interact with other services or components. This ensures that the modernized application can seamlessly integrate with other systems and take full advantage of its new architecture and features.