As USAFCENT, the 609th Air Operations Center, and supporting communications organizations modernize mission infrastructure at Shaw AFB and across distributed operating locations, IT teams must support two realities at the same time: critical legacy virtual machines that cannot simply be rewritten, and a growing requirement for containerized applications that can be deployed and updated more rapidly.
At the same time, changes in the virtualization market are creating new cost, licensing and vendor-dependency concerns. Simply replacing one hypervisor with another may solve an immediate infrastructure problem, but it does not necessarily create a foundation for the next generation of mission applications.
In this Tech on Tap session, Red Hat and One Technology will present a phased modernization approach built around a common platform for virtual machines and containers.
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization provides a path for migrating existing Windows and Linux VM workloads from VMware while allowing those workloads to operate alongside containerized applications on the same OpenShift platform.
The discussion will then move beyond virtualization replacement to show how AFCENT organizations can modernize applications incrementally, keeping workloads as VMs where appropriate while moving selected applications and services toward containers when mission requirements justify it.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform extends the architecture by automating migration, provisioning, configuration, patching, compliance, and Day-2 operational activities across the environment, while One Technology brings infrastructure architecture, data center modernization, hardware integration, and implementation expertise.
The result is a practical modernization path that allows mission owners to reduce dependency on legacy virtualization platforms today while establishing an open foundation for containerized mission applications tomorrow.
