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As of December 2022, support ends for migrating VMs from VMware vSphere to Google Cloud using Migrate for Compute Engine v 4.11.

Google Cloud Migrate for Compute Engine (formerly Velostrata) migrates VMs from your on-premises data center, AWS, or Azure into Compute Engine. Learn more.

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Architecting Hybrid Infrastructure with Anthos

This course prepares students to modernize, manage, and observe their applications using Kubernetes whether the application is deployed on-premises or on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Explore and deploy using Kubernetes Engine (GKE), GKE Connect, Istio service mesh and Anthos Config Management capabilities that enable operators to work with modern applications even when split among multiple clusters hosted by multiple providers, or on-premises.

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Migrating to Google Cloud

This course introduces participants to migrating workloads to Google Cloud. The course explains the strategies to migrate from the source environment to the cloud. In addition to learning how to use Google Cloud, participants learn how to use Migrate for Compute Engine. The training covers the installation and migration process, including special features like test clones and wave migrations.

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Migrate for Compute Engine

In this lab you use Migrate for Compute Engine to migrate a VM instance (EC2) that exists on AWS to Google Cloud. This will be a "lift and shift" operation. When completed, the VM instance that was running on AWS will be running on Google Cloud.

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Explore use cases, reference architectures, whitepapers, best practices, and industry solutions.

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Migrating containers to Google Cloud: Getting started

Plan, design, and implement the migration of your containers to Google Cloud. If done incorrectly, moving your workloads from one environment to another can be a challenging task, so plan and execute your migration carefully.

Migration containers

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Migrating containers to Google Cloud: Migrating Kubernetes to GKE

Plan, design, and implement your migration from a self-managed Kubernetes environment to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). If done incorrectly, moving apps from one environment to another can be a challenging task, so you need to plan and execute your migration carefully.

Migration Kubernetes

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Migrating containers to Google Cloud: Migrating from OpenShift to Anthos

Plan, design, and implement your migration from OpenShift to Anthos. If done incorrectly, moving your workloads from one environment to another can be a challenging task, so plan and execute your migration carefully.

Migration OpenShift

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Use case

Migrating VMs with Migrate for Compute Engine: Getting started

Part of a series: guides you through migrating your virtual machines from your source environment to Google Cloud by using Migrate for Compute Engine.

Compute Engine

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Blog

How Anthos helps modernize application development

Learn about creating a software delivery and development pipeline that spans on-premises and the cloud

Anthos CI/CD

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Article

Modernization path for .NET applications on Google Cloud

Looks at the common limitations of monolithic applications and describes a gradual yet structured process for modernizing them.

.NET Windows

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Samples

Dive into Anthos and learn how to modernize enterprise applications with our sample deployment and demo apps

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Anthos sample deployment

Explore Anthos with our demo deployment on Google Cloud, including Bank of Anthos.

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Bank of Anthos

Sample HTTP-based web app with microservices that simulates a bank's payment processing network.

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Online Boutique

HTTP-based e-commerce app with microservices.

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