Summary
Cloud migration is a process of transitioning applications, data, and other IT resources from on-premises to cloud environments. With cloud migration, organizations can leverage the scalability and cost savings that the cloud offers without having to invest in expensive hardware. The cloud also provides an opportunity for businesses to modernize their existing application infrastructure by using VMs and containers. By taking advantage of cloud services, organizations can unlock greater agility while reducing costs associated with traditional application deployment models.
In this chapter, we explored a number of common migration scenarios and tools that you can use to help assess your own situation. We discussed some cloud fundamentals on networking and compute resources and highlighted how these will differ from a more traditional IT environment. We also delved into application containerization, something that is likely not available in a traditional IT environment but...