Red Hat, Inc., a provider of open-source solutions, announced the general availability of Migration Toolkit for Applications 6, based on the open-source project Konveyor, aimed at helping customers accelerate large-scale application modernization efforts. The toolkit enables customers to better assess, prioritize and modernize their applications across hybrid cloud environments on Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s leading Kubernetes platform.
Few would contest the fact that the technological landscape has drastically changed recently. In the upcoming year, enterprises aim to modernise 54% of their custom applications, and more than a quarter of these workloads in the upcoming six months, according to Red Hat’s 2022 State of Application Modernization Report.
Respondent reported that about 80% of the applications will be modernized in the next 2 years. There is a change in the understanding of the dependency of virtualization. To keep up with rising customer demands and competitive market conditions, businesses are adopting cloud-native technology, but this process takes time. Red Hat assists clients in modernising applications at their own pace and according to their schedules using the Migration Toolkit for Applications and associated services and capabilities.
An integrated collection of tools known as the Migration Toolkit for Applications supports Java application modernization and migration projects at scale and across a wide range of use cases. Migration Toolkit for Applications 6 is now created to assist migration leads and developers choose the best and most dependable modernization path going forward.
● New application inventory and assessment modules that assist organizations in managing, classifying and tagging their applications while assessing application suitability for deployment in containers, including flagging potential risks for migration strategies.
● Full integration with source code and binary repositories to automate the retrieval of applications for analysis along with proxy integration including HTTP and HTTPS proxy configuration managed in the user interface.
● Improved analysis capabilities with new analysis modes, including source and dependency modes that parse repositories to gather dependencies and add them to the overall scope of the analysis. There is also a simplified user experience to configure the analysis scope, including open-source libraries.
● Enhanced RBAC powered by Red Hat Single Sign-On, defining three new differentiated personas with different permissions to suit the needs of each user—administrator, architect and migrator—including credentials management for multiple credential types.
● Administrator perspective to provide tool-wide configuration management for administrators.
