Migrate workloads to GKE

This page lists resources to show you how to migrate your containerized applications to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

GKE provides a managed environment for deploying, managing, and scaling your containerized applications using Google Cloud infrastructure.

GKE works with containerized applications. These are applications packaged into platform independent, isolated user-space instances, for example by using Docker.

For more information about migrating your containerized workloads to GKE, refer to following documents:

Migrate for GKE

Migrate for GKE is a tool to containerize existing VM-based applications to run on GKE. By taking advantage of the GKE ecosystems, Migrate for GKE provides a fast and simple way to modernized orchestration and application management without requiring access to source code or rewriting and re-architecting applications.

Migrate for GKE migration sources

Use Migrate for GKE to containerize Linux and Windows VMs running on VMware, AWS, Azure, or Compute Engine.

Migrate for GKE provides tools to help you determine the workload's fit for migration to a container. These tools output a report describing the analysis results for the VM, including a list of any issues that must be resolved before migration, and an overall fit assessment.

For more information, see Using the fit assessment tool

Get an introduction to key Migrate for GKE concepts

For an introduction to the value of Migrate for GKE, as well as high-level overviews, see the following topics:

  • Watch a set of videos that demonstrate how you can easily migrate and containerize your application.
  • For the benefits of migrating to GKE with Migrate and GKE, see Benefits of Migrate for GKE.
  • For more on how Migrate for GKE performs migrations, see Architecture.

Get started with a quickstart

Use this quickstart to migrate a simple Compute Engine VM. This introduces you to the basic steps you'd perform for most Linux migrations.

Complete the migration tutorial for a service and database

Use the Migrating a monolith VM tutorial, to learn how to move a service and its database from a VM to a GKE environment, with no code changes. The sample application used is Bank of Anthos, a simulation of a retail banking service, complete with its own transaction processing network and databases.

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