Move Applications From Any Container Platform to Any Other Container Platform With RackWare SWIFT

RackWare SWIFT is RackWare’s newest offering to help streamline and manage your virtualized network from development to deployment, automate resources for scalability, improve data access and integrity, and support disaster recovery. Cloud technology via a hybrid SDN and traditional network promised a future of simplicity, less equipment, network elasticity, optimized transport, and data integrity. It’s not that these aspects don’t exist, but it isn’t the panacea we expected. The benefits came with strict rules and limitations. The proprietary nature of the different flavors and types of cloud networks produced deployment challenges, the most significant being the inability to move data uniformly from one cloud to another without numerous customizations and data validations upon migration. 

We also expected our virtualized networks to maintain high availability through automation and enable seamless fail-overs to Disaster Recovery sites that were pre-staged or an immediate spin-up of a new environment upon failure of the virtualized/hybrid network.

What is RackWare SWIFT going to do for you? 

Every cloud service has its own native storage conversion requirements and associated challenges; thus, it’s cumbersome to manage container platforms and data migration while attempting to accurately clone devices and containers. RackWare SWIFT allows you to seamlessly move your applications from any container platform to any other container platform, including Oracle (OKE), Azure (AKS), Google (GKE), AWS (EKS), and IBM/Openshift. You can choose which apps to migrate with the storage vendor of your choice on the DR side and SWIFT will do the rest.

Do you remember when NAS devices introduced the ability to take snapshots and copies, break the mirror, and store the mirrored copy? There was a great expectation for NAS to manage Disaster Recovery. It continues to be a good process, but it’s not scalable and quite cumbersome. In a virtualized world, the NAS of network containers is elusive, requiring a great deal of customization, which impacts your production environment since they don’t clone or use snapshot technology of high caliber. RackWare SWIFT takes Disaster Recovery to the next level because it leverages native storage and CSI snapshots to clone as well as sync your application. RackWare SWIFT doesn’t need any additional production application details and does not impact security for your production applications, including Disaster Recovery syncs. There is no impact on your production, whatsoever.

Unlike other migration and Disaster Recovery offerings, RackWare SWIFT securely and efficiently creates a validated and accurate delta sync data transfer automatically. Validation and testing do not impact the original environment preventing latency, timeouts, and downtime. RackWare’s SWIFT offering is non-intrusive to your production access for containerized workloads during replication or Disaster Recovery. This also allows any application supported for migration/syncs to maintain a high availability and avoid latency or resource impacts. This reduces the overall duration for cutovers/failovers during Disaster Recovery situations.

In an enterprise environment, organizations bicker over storage space, tenant space, and the accoutrements that come with a virtualized world, including Disaster Recovery. Many vendors take your source app YAMLs, edit them, fit them for the target platform environment and version, and deploy them manually. Due to the limitations of other applications, this process may not be feasible, and YAML conversions are difficult and complex.

RackWare SWIFT allows you to seamlessly move your applications from any container platform and version to any other container platform and version. While migrating, right-sizing options become available for your applications. You can “rightsize” your volumes, move your apps to a different namespace, and change various service configs and ports in an automated fashion. This allows for easy backup and restoration of containerized applications with cutovers in minutes.

It’s normal for organizations to have hybrid container environments. What matters is your ability to seamlessly transition between platforms and versions. RackWare SWIFT has you covered. RackWare SWIFT enables you to take point-in-time snapshots of your application, running on any platform, and using any storage. You can restore backups to the same or other container platforms, and to any namespace location. RackWare's Any-To-Any container migration and Disaster Recovery technology are not only simple to complete but also support cross-version syncs. Using cross-version syncs enables you to leverage the latest and greatest releases of OpenShift and Kubernetes. RackWare SWIFT makes your container DR journey fully future proof.

We are excited about the versatility of the backup management features RackWare SWIFT offers to customers. The true power of SWIFT as a backup manager lies in the fact that it can do Any-To-Any backup and restore. Anytime backups of your applications give you the ability to restore any backups to any namespace on your DR Kubernetes setup. You can back up every production application before every rollout, restore the backup as your backout plan during maintenance and migrations in production. RackWare SWIFT empowers your development teams to truly unlock the power of DevOps.

To see RackWare SWIFT in action, request a demo here or email [email protected].