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Use Migrate to Containers to convert VM-based workloads into containers in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Workloads can be migrated from VMs running on either VMware on-premises or Compute Engine, giving you the flexibility to containerize your existing workloads with ease.

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Migrate to Containers: Qwik Start

In this lab, you will create a Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instance hosting a Web Server, create a Kubernetes cluster to host the migrated Compute Engine VM, and then migrate the Compute Engine VM using Migrate to Containers.