Migration prerequisites

Before you perform the migration steps, you need to make sure that you have met the prerequisites discussed in this section. Both Export and Import activities have their own set of prerequisites to adhere to. 

Prerequisites for Export

You need to make sure that you have:

1. The Export XML file ready.
   You can generate the Export XML file by following the instructions given on this page.
2. The access to the source Kubernetes environment where the application is installed.
3. The Linux OS installed on your system.
   
4. Installed the followings:
   

   1. Helm

   2. kubectl client

Prerequisites for Import

You need to make sure that you have:

1. The Export ZIP file is ready.
2. The Import and Retain XMLs are ready.
3. Met the rest of the prerequisites same as that for Export.

If you ever make any changes to the resources in the values.yaml for migration, you need to change the JVM parameters accordingly through the environment variable JAVA_OPTS – It can be up to 70% of the allocated resources.