On-Premise to Cloud Migration

Question

Has anyone performed application migration from an Appian On-prem solution to Appian Cloud Platform if yes any pointer to document could be helpful

Jussi Lundstedt · Accepted Answer

Hi Ankur, 
 
To begin discussions regarding migrating an existing Appian instance to Appian Cloud, please contact Appian Support as well as the customer organization's Appian Account Executive. The exact specifics of the process will vary depending on the current on-premise configuration and we cannot provide a concrete set of steps without reviewing some data from the environment, including used plugins, topology, etc. 
 
As far as business data is concerned, you would typically leverage VPN to connect to the business database from the Appian Cloud instance. 
 
Best, 
Jussi

jayakumars · Answer

The playbook play located here is a good place to start.

Carlos Santander · Answer

The migration process isn't too different from migrating to another on-prem environment, with the caveat that the code needs to be adapted some. For example, if you're relying on customizations, that'll need to go away. Any plugins that aren't approved for the cloud, they need to be replaced with cloud-approved plugins. Etc. 
 
Next, you need to make sure your code works with the latest Appian version. Hopefully your on-prem environment is up to date, but if you're on an older version, it would be good to test in an updated environment. 
 
You'll also need to think about network resources you need to access. Do you need to connect to an on-prem database or LDAP server? You'll need to work with Appian Support to have a VPN set up to get to those. 
 
I think those are the major things to consider in addition to a "normal" environment migration. You'll need to deal with different URLs, etc., but that's no different than if you went from one on-prem environment to another.