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Migration toolkit for applications 8: Bringing

modernized applications to market faster

27/10/2025

By: Jonathan Recinos, Shaaf Syed, Ramon Roman Nissen

October 26, 2025 - Application modernization is a continuous journey for enterprises, driven by the need for
greater business agility, enhanced security, and cost optimization. While the benefits are clear, large-scale
modernization projects can be complex, time-consuming, and require significant upfront investment.

With the introduction of migration toolkit for applications 8 (MTA 8), Red Hat is helping organizations
overcome these challenges by automating key parts of the modernization journey. The migration toolkit for

applications has long provided tools for containerization readiness, source-code analysis, and project
management. MTA 8 builds on this foundation by introducing two major new capabilities: automated

replatforming and intelligent refactoring.
Automating replatforming to Red Hat OpenShift

Replatforming—migrating an application from one platform to another with minimal code changes—is a
common modernization strategy that can deliver significant benefits like improved scalability, security, and
cost-efficiency. However, even this approach can be time-consuming due to a number of manual, error-prone

tasks.
MTA 8 automates this process by generating the necessary deployment artifacts to run an application on Red

Hat OpenShift. The first supported migration path is from Cloud Foundry to OpenShift, enabling users to:
• Discover and analyze applications: MTA connects to the source platform to identify applications and extract

crucial deployment and runtime information.
• Generate deployment assets: Using this normalized data, MTA translates the configuration into the target

platform format by leveraging Helm Charts to create deployment manifests for OpenShift.
• Streamline deployment: The resulting artifacts are automatically placed in a target repository, which can be
picked up by CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment.

This automation helps to reduce manual work and improve the ROI of application modernization projects. It
also allows organizations to enforce standards and best practices while still giving developers the flexibility to

customize aspects of the deployment configuration.
Combining automation with intelligence
With the addition of Red Hat Developer Lightspeed for migration toolkit for applications, the MTA 8 story

becomes even more powerful. While MTA 8 automates the replatforming process, Red Hat Developer
Lightspeed for migration toolkit for applications provides intelligent code refactoring capabilities.

This add-on, included in a Red Hat Advanced Developer Suite (ADS) subscription, automates source code

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