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Migrating Workloads

In Chapter 3, we described how to assess your digital estate during the planning phase and decide on the target state for each workload on the cloud. In this chapter, we will walk through the migration journey for workloads that will be rehosted or refactored (modernized). If your organization has not identified or does not require any migration, then you can probably skip this chapter for now, though the final section on Azure DevOps might be interesting.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • Migration scenarios
  • Migration tools
  • Networking
  • Virtual machines
  • Containerization
  • Azure DevOps

Understanding migration scenarios

Cloud migration is the process of moving applications, data, and the supporting ...

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