Preparing for adoption

After you select a strategy, check if any of the following prerequisite steps are required and completed.

Construct a target enterprise account framework
Build or customize any needed deployable architectures in preparation for hosting workloads
Add existing workloads to IBM Cloud projects for tracking
Lay down common infrastructure
Determine overall project schedule
Ensure that backups for live systems are working and current

Relevant capabilities

Before you apply one of the technical strategies, it can be useful to become familiar with some of the relevant tools and capabilities in IBM Cloud.

Import existing accounts into an enterprise.
Move accounts into different account groups
Database back up and restore to a different account to move databases
Database sync across accounts:
Configure a redundant Key Protect instance for HA and handling cross-region or cross-account restore for Hyper Protect Crypto Services.
To follow an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach, resources need to be re-created by using automation within the new account structure. You can easily embrace this strategy by using IBM Cloud projects, which rely on automation to create resources.
Use deployable architectures to create new compliant infrastructure.
Terraformer can be used to get a start on building a deployable architecture for existing resources.
Manual resources and bulk resource tagging by using projects.
Import an existing schematics workspace into a project.
Onboard a deployable architecture to the catalog for sharing.