Konveyor: Modernizing Applications for the Cloud-Native World
Shriira Press
How an open-source toolkit turns the daunting work of moving legacy applications to Kubernetes into something you can measure, plan, and execute.
Welcome to Konveyor: Modernizing Applications for the Cloud-Native World.
Konveyor is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project that helps developers and platform teams modernize legacy applications and migrate them to Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms in a predictable, measurable way. Most organizations sit on a sprawl of older applications, and the real difficulty in moving them is not writing the new code but knowing what is there, what will break, how much effort each move will cost, and in what order to proceed. Konveyor attacks that problem from several angles at once. This book follows its logic from the ground up. We begin with the modernization problem itself and the shape of Konveyor's answer, then dig into rules-based static analysis with the analyzer-lsp engine and the rulesets that drive it. From there we explore Kantra, the command-line tool that puts analysis in a developer's hands, and the Hub, the web console that turns thousands of applications into a planned portfolio. We cover assessment questionnaires and risk scoring, the transformation step that rewrites code, and Konveyor AI, which pairs static analysis with large language models to draft fixes. A closing chapter ties it all together with adoption patterns and where Konveyor fits in the wider ecosystem.
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