Migrate to Containers documentation
Use Migrate to Containers to convert VM-based workloads
into containers in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
or GKE Enterprise
. Workloads can be migrated from VMs running on either
VMware on-premises or Compute Engine, giving you the
flexibility to containerize your existing workloads with ease.
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Migrate to Containers: Qwik Start
In this lab, you will create a Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instance hosting a Web Server, create a Kubernetes cluster to host the migrated Compute Engine VM, and then migrate the Compute Engine VM using Migrate to Containers.
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Migrate to Containers: Windows
In this lab, you will use Migrate to Containers to migrate a Compute Engine VM running a Windows image into a Kubernetes cluster.
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