Organizations across every industry are looking to automation to give their business a competitive advantage. In many cases, automation is already underway with multiple grassroots efforts. Automation is the cornerstone that allows IT to provide consumable infrastructure for development and application teams inside your organization. Automation is also key to reducing toil and having engineering and operations teams focus on important work and driving your business into the future. However, for many, getting started with Automation can seem like a daunting task, and prioritizing where to start can be a difficult decision.

A cloud-native platform like OpenShift can significantly accelerate common business and technical objectives, such as establishing a digital transformation strategy or a platform for next-generation workloads. This briefing is beneficial for customers who are interested in learning more about the Red Hat OpenShift product portfolio and can be tailored for business and technical audiences.

Cloud-native platforms are the foundation for organizations to host next-generation, business-critical workloads. Platforms such as these represent a new paradigm in how applications and workloads are deployed, scaled and distributed.

In today's race to the cloud, companies often take the path of least resistance, or "lifting and shifting" existing apps without modification. Yet, to maximize gains from a cloud migration, it is frequently preferable to update workloads to leverage cloud native capabilities. This guided technical demo progresses through seven different means of replatforming and refactoring an application, illustrating the pros and cons of each architecture.