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In some examples, a method includes: (a) reading a manifest file containing information regarding an application running on one or more Virtual Machines (VMs), wherein the information includes application topology, credentials, and configuration details; (b) receiving instructions to re-deploy the application from the one or more VMs to a container environment; (c) discovering, based on information in the manifest file, application consumption attributes including attributes of storage, computer, and network resources consumed by a workload of the application; (d) deploying the application on the container environment to produce a containerized application; (e) copying configuration details from the manifest file to the containerized application; (f) migrating, based on information in the manifest file and the discovered application consumption attributes, stateful data to the containerized application; and (g) validating the containerized application functionality.
