Organizations are interested in accelerating application modernization, and during the recent KubeCon gathering, HCL Technologies Ltd. launched a new initiative to do exactly that.

The company announced the Kubernetes Migration Platform, or KMP, an automated solution that helps migrate workloads from legacy on-premises systems and Cloud Foundry environments to Kubernetes platforms.

“The key attraction of KMP is it lets me re-platform my applications to Kubernetes immediately,” said Alan Flower (pictured, left), senior vice president, chief technology officer and global head of cloud native labs at HCL. “Within two to three minutes, I can bring an application from a legacy platform directly onto Kubernetes and I can take it straight into production. That’s the kind of acceleration that clients are looking for today.”

Flower spoke with theCUBE industry analysts Keith Townsend and Paul Gillin at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. He was joined by Ramón Román Nissen (pictured, right), senior AppDev architect at Red Hat Inc., and they discussed the technology behind KMP and continued integration of projects, such as Cloud Foundry, into the Kubernetes ecosystem. (* Disclosure below.)

Community-based tools

The new initiative is based on Konveyor, an open-source project created by Red Hat and IBM Research to modernize and migrate applications for the hybrid cloud.

“What we’re trying to do is provide a series of standardized tools and methodologies from a community perspective,” Nissen explained. “Konveyor was kickstarted by Red Hat and IBM, but we are trying to bring as many vendors and global system integrators as possible to set up these standards and make the road to Kubernetes as easy as possible.”

The latest announcement also brings Cloud Foundry more into the Kubernetes fold. Cloud Foundry is an open-source technology for cloud-native application delivery on top of Kubernetes, and it is backed by companies such as IBM, HCL and VMware.

“Within the Cloud Foundry community, we’ve been staunch supporters of Kubernetes for quite some time,” Flower noted. “It’s a stated intent of the Cloud Foundry Foundation to move across to the Kubernetes platform. With the tools and solutions that we’ve announced this week, we are simply accelerating that journey for clients.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe event:

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe event. Neither Red Hat Inc., the main sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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