Cmigrate is an open-source project for migrating your VM-based application deployments to container. Cmigrate is a CLI based tool wriitten in python which can discover the application runtime on the server and generate a docker file and the application artifacts to containerize.

We have shipped cmigrate with the following features :

• Automatic Environment discovery
• Option to select from multiple environments
• Automatically collect the application-related environment variable and configurations
• Generates docker file for containerization of the application
• Support for tomcat and jboss based application

💡 *Currently cmigrate only support tomcat and Jboss. We will add support for more application in the forthcoming releases.

Cmigrate is build on the below tech stack

• Click python framework
• Jinja web template engine

All the code for cmigrate is written in python. Jinja is a web template engine for the Python programming language and it is used to create the template for generating a docker file. Click is a Python package for creating command-line interfaces.

• Support for more applications runtimes

Run the cmigrate.py file.

python3 cmigrate.py

if you have multiple application runtime running you can pass one in --runtime parameter.

Stay tuned for more updates 🎉