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Migration Toolkit For Applications 8: Bringing Modernized

Applications To Market Faster

By Editor_wr On Oct 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

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