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Modernizing a legacy application to a set of containers is highly desirable as containers are agile, scalable, and can be easily tested and deployed on any cloud environment. In this paper, we propose Janus, a modernization tool that helps architects and developers to transform a legacy application into a set of containers. Janus realizes two capabilities: one, it automatically discovers configurations and dependencies needed to create docker artifacts, with prior rules and knowledge mined from similar legacy applications; two, it provides a dynamic web interface to interact with architect/developer to verify the discovered configurations and dependencies and guide users in acquiring missing information. We provide a demonstration of Janus on a legacy application.
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Ho, H., Gordon, D., Kalia, A., Xiao, J., Vukovic, M. (2020). Janus: A Tool to Modernize Legacy Applications to Containers. In: Yangui, S., et al. Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2019 Workshops. ICSOC 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12019. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45989-5_28
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