https://brenthollers.com/categories/projects/Recent content in Projects on Brent HollersHugoen-USTue, 06 Jan 2026 22:55:05 -0400https://brenthollers.com/projects/Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:55:05 -0400https://brenthollers.com/projects/<h3 id="objective">Objective</h3> <p>To develop a more concrete understanding of modernization and migration strategies for complex systems which also has specific security, resiliency, and accessibility requirements, I chose to simulate a realistic Federal Cloud Transformation scenario—migrating a legacy, stateful mission application from an on-premise data center to AWS, and subsequently refactoring it into a secure, scalable, cloud-native architecture on Kubernetes. The Scenario: A federal agency is running a critical &ldquo;Mission Status&rdquo; application on aging on-premise hardware (Dell PowerEdge/VMware). The agency has a mandate to evacuate the data center (Cloud First Policy) and improve the application&rsquo;s security posture and scalability (Modernization).</p>