In the current day journey towards application modernization, enterprises have a growing need to not only bring together the agility of newer microservice architectures and application development platforms like Kubernetes but also align those capabilities with their existing middleware, databases, and processes.

Trying to meet this need can get very complicated, very quickly, especially if an enterprise has a mix of hybrid cloud environments with applications that are both VM-based and containerized, running on public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises. For example, configuring and managing Kubernetes across hybrid cloud environments often requires multiple tools and a great deal of manual effort.

Application modernization doesn