Reverse Migration of Cloud Applications to On-premises

Abstract

Cloud has become ubiquitous to modern applications due to its agility and scalability. However, regulated industries still prefer to deploy on-premises due to security and compliance reasons. This creates a paradox for vendors who need to develop in the cloud but deploy on-premises, leading to long release cycles and complex maintenance. In this paper, we present Diel, the Tursio On-premises Migrator, a tool that automates reverse migration of cloud applications to on-premises environments. Diel applies a combination of simulate, replicate, and delegate strategies to transform cloud services into on-premises counterparts. We describe the design and implementation of Diel, along with lessons learned from using it in practice. With Diel, we have been able to keep Tursio AI's cloud and on-premises versions in sync, releasing new stable versions every three weeks.