From Fortran on the Desktop to Kubernetes in the Cloud: A Windows Migration Story

How do you provide a SaaS offering when your product is a 10-year old Fortran app, currently built to run on Windows 10? With Docker and Kubernetes of course - and you can do it in a week (... to prototype level at least). In this session I'll walk through the processes and practicalities of taking an older Windows app, making it run in containers with Kubernetes, and then building a simple API wrapper to host the whole stack as a cloud-based SaaS product. There's a lot of technology here from a real world case study, and I'll focus on: - running Windows apps in Docker containers - building a .NET Core API which can run in Linux or Windows containers - running the stack in Kubernetes with Docker Desktop locally and AKS in the cloud - configuring AKS workloads in Azure to burst out to Azure Container Instances And there's a core theme to this session: Docker and Kubernetes are complex technologies, but they're the key to modern development. If you invest time learning them, they make projects like this simple, portable, fast and fun.