Environment Export/Import: How To Migrate Application between Clouds
WafaiCloud PaaS & CaaS is designed to provide a real freedom of choice to developers: no proprietary APIs, no necessity to adjust your applications’ code before hosting, a wide variety of stacks and features available. And one of the key options that exempts our users from any lock-in is the Environment Export / Import feature.
It allows to easily migrate hosted applications across available WafaiCloud installations (i.e. hosting provider platforms). In such a way, you are able to switch to the most suitable WafaiCloud platform according to your current preferences (e.g. due to platform versions differentiation or pricing systems distinctions) at any time.
To accomplish this, you need to:- export your environment from WafaiCloud installation it is currently hosted at
- import it to the preferred target platform
Note:
- For the Environment Export / Import feature to work properly, the initial hosting provider’s platform should have the 7979 port opened, which is intended to be used for downloading environment source files during the import operation. Thus, depending on a particular provider’s configurations, exported environments from some of our partners’ platforms (Elastx, Everdata, Under and Locaweb in particular) may be not available for importing at other WafaiCloud installations.
- You can also use the Environment Transferring option for moving your projects between different accounts of a single hosting provider platform, without the necessity to export/import them.
