Top 5 Reasons To Migrate From Cloud Foundry to Google Cloud
VMware held their SpringOne conference this week for developers and made a few announcements of note. If you can navigate the word salad, you’ll see that they’ve canceled their “Cloud Foundry on Kubernetes” program, effectively putting PCF on a dead-end path.
Now maybe a good time to look at Kf. With Kf, you can migrate your Cloud Foundry applications to Google Kubernetes Engine or Anthos without changing your developer workflows.
1/ VMware Springone conference is currently underway where for the first time they have authoritatively sunset Cloud Foundry. See excerpt below from Tanzu Blog
Nonetheless, after hundreds of discussions with our beta customers, we determined that the Tanzu Application Service for Kubernetes approach wouldn’t allow us to leverage and expose the key declarative primitives that make Kubernetes and its ecosystem so powerful. We also didn’t believe it would meet our standards for scalability, speed, security, and stability, nor would it deliver the kind of developer experience our customers have grown accustomed to. So, we pivoted. [https://tanzu.vmware.com/
2/ Two weeks ago Chip announced that he will leave the CFF: https://thenewstack.io/an-
3/ At Google Next CoreLogic. one of the first enterprises to adopt PCF will talk about their journey to migrate over 10K app instances from PCF across multiple foundations running on-prem and in GCP.
CoreLogic is replatforming 10,000+ Cloud Foundry app-instances with Kf
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| Migrate 10000 Cloud Foundry Applications To GKE and Anthos |
4/ kf migration tool our CF migration tool is now mature at v2.5 https://cloud.google.com/
5/ @drnic a major stalwart of the Cloud Foundry community leaves the company that he founded after acquisition from Qarik - Stark and Wayne https://www.linkedin.com/posts/drnic_qarik-group-enhances-modernization-transformation-activity-6838928460447145984-0aJ4/
Checkout a 2 minute video of How To video
We have a migration assessment tool that will evaluate and do a technical and ROI assessment of your Pivotal Cloud Foundry workload for migration to GCP. See Assessment and Migration for more information on using the assessment and migration tool.
If you have questions reach out (rohitkelapure at google dot com) or any of our partners who have expertise in assisting with the migration like EngineerBetter
Read their blog post on how easy this is https://www.engineerbetter.com/blog/migrating-to-kf/