Open source is where it’s at right now, with a lot of the segment’s technologies influencing the general direction of enterprise computing.

Kubernetes, Ansible and TensorFlow are well-known names, but Konveyor — and its K8s migration ethos —  is now grabbing the spotlight.

“It is one of the open-source modernization toolsets that are available right now,” said Savitha Raghunathan (pictured, right), senior software engineer at Red Hat Inc. “You see a lot of large companies … want to do the migration and the journey, and we just want to help them make their life easier.”

Raghunathan and Christopher Nuland (pictured, left), cloud success architect at Red Hat, spoke with theCUBE industry analysts John Furrier and Savannah Peterson at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2022, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed Konveyor’s enterprise value proposition as it becomes part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. (* Disclosure below.)

A ‘lane assist system’ to guide the migration of enterprise apps

Red Hat and IBM Research launched the Konveyor project early last year as a community-driven endeavor to help in the modernization and migration of applications for the open hybrid cloud.

The primary goal behind its conceptualization was to accelerate Kubernetes adoption, since containerization requires reconfiguration and, sometimes, the rearchitecting of existing workloads. Red Hat has seen a “real need in the market” to solve this problem as more companies look to go cloud-native.

“I feel like, in the last 10 years, we had this period where a lot of companies were dabbling in the cloud and identifying the low-hanging fruit for their migrations,” Nuland explained. “We’re just starting to move into a period where now they’re trying to bring over legacy applications.”

Konveyor’s primary use case comes into play as companies replatform and, eventually, refactor their applications to take full advantage of cloud-native, Raghunathan added.

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2022 event:

(* Disclosure: Red Hat Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Red Hat nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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