Serverless Migration: Lift-and-shift

This article is part of a series:

• Part One — review your existing application (Wed. 09/18)
• Part Two — break apart your application (Fri. 09/20)
• Part Three — lift-and-shift (Wed. 09/25)
• Part Four — choose a deployment framework (Fri. 09/27)
• Part Five — build a strong foundation (Fri. 10/11)

In this series, we take a look at what areas you need to think about when making a “serverless migration”. First, we will touch on what you should review about your existing application, move into breaking your application apart, talk about lift-and-shift, choose a cloud provider, choose a deployment framework, and how to build a strong foundation.

In this article, we are going to talk about the lift-and-shift cloud migration strategy and see how it looks when applied to serverless.

If you’re not familiar with lift-and-shift, let’s talk about it.

Lift-and-shift (explanation)

Pick up your existing application running on-premises and drop it onto a cloud providers VM (virtual machine).

This strategy usually plays out like this:

1. Select a small application running on-premises