Migrate to Containers documentation

Use Migrate to Containers to convert VM-based workloads into containers in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) or GKE Enterprise. Workloads can be migrated from VMs running on either VMware on-premises or Compute Engine, giving you the flexibility to containerize your existing workloads with ease.

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In this lab, you will create a Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instance hosting a Web Server, create a Kubernetes cluster to host the migrated Compute Engine VM, and then migrate the Compute Engine VM using Migrate to Containers.

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In this lab, you will use Migrate to Containers to migrate a Compute Engine VM running a Windows image into a Kubernetes cluster.

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