Canonical enables an end-to-end cloud-native transformation journey from assessment to build, and finally migration implementation. It is a 3-phase approach, starting with the assessment. The other phases are containerisation and then migration to Azure/AKS.
AKS migration assessment is a comprehensive consulting package to assess your readiness and plan your enterprise application modernization and migration to Microsoft Azure and Azure Kubernetes Service.

Business benefits

• Understand your application’s cloud readiness, components and relationships, software provenance and lifecycle to execute your cloud strategy
• Modernize your enterprise applications and deliver new innovations to your customers quickly
• Improve operational efficiency and reduce your overall IT spend on applications maintenance on-prem by having an insight into the portfolio of apps that can be migrated to AKS
• Accelerate time to market and drive agility by transforming your enterprise apps to cloud-native and running the workloads on AKS

Key Features

Here is a high level overview of the AKS migration assessment approach and key features

Discovery:

• Review the current state of infrastructure architecture where the application is operated.
• Identify the application dependencies
• Map out the application run time requirements.

Analysis:

• Analyze the characteristics and requirements for the future state
• Determine containerisation targets as well as ‘lift and shift’ modules
• Evaluate open source components for reusability and explore operations standardization

Planning:

• Define a strategy for the application migration
• Outline modernized application architecture
• Deliver an estimate for the transition to AKS

Key deliverables

1. Applications re-architecture proposal 2. High level migration plan 3. Statement of work