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Migration toolkit for applications 8: Bringing modernized

applications to market faster

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.