# Strategies for migrating to Kubernetes

DevFeed: [Strategies for migrating to Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/strategies-for-migrating-to-kubernetes-11711.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.gremlin.com/blog/strategies-for-migrating-to-kubernetes>)

Author: Andre Newman

Published: 2024-05-24T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Gremlin Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/gremlin-blog.md>)

Topics: [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/migration.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [Containers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/containers.md>), [Refactoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/refactoring.md>)

Tags: [containers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/containers.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/learning.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/migration.md>), [refactoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/refactoring.md>)

## AI overview

This article presents three techniques for migrating workloads to Kubernetes: rehosting, refactoring, and replatforming. It explains rehosting, or "lift and shift," as packaging an existing application into a container image and deploying it on a Kubernetes cluster, while noting that this approach is fast but may leave applications poorly optimized for Kubernetes.

## Source excerpt

Learn various techniques for migrating workloads from traditional monolithic application architectures to Kubernetes.