Case Study: How to move from a Monolith to Cloud, Containers and Microservices

This session shows a case study about successfully moving from a complex monolith system to a cloud-native architecture. The session will describe the challenges, the step-by-step procedure to move to the new cloud-native microservices architecture, how to build flexible business and integration microservices, and why containers such as Docker play a key role in this scenario. A live demo shows how containers, PaaS cloud platforms and cluster managers are used to implement, deploy and scale cloud-native microservices in a vendor-agnostic way.

Target Audience: Architects, Developers, Project Leader, Manager, Decision Makers
Prerequisites: basic knowledge about cloud and containers helpful but not necessary
Level: Introductory

Extended Abstract
This session shows a case study about successfully moving from a very complex monolith system to a cloud-native architecture. The architecture leverages containers and Microservices to solve issues such as high efforts for extending the system, and a very slow deployment process. The old system included a few huge Java applications and a complex integration middleware deployment.
The new architecture allows flexible development, deployment and operations of business and integration services. Besides, it is vendor-agnostic so that you can leverage on-premise hardware, different public cloud infrastructures, and cloud-native PaaS platforms.
The session will describe the challenges of the existing monolith system, the step-by-step procedure to move to the new cloud-native Microservices architecture, and why containers such as Docker play a key role in this scenario.
A live demo shows how container solutions such as Docker, PaaS cloud platforms such as CloudFoundry, cluster managers such as Kubernetes or Mesos, and different programming languages are used to implement, deploy and scale cloud-native Microservices in a vendor-agnostic way.