Chapter 3. MTA 6.0.0

Application inventory module

New application portfolio driven UI that enables organizations to manage and classify their applications using an extensible tagging model.

Application assessment module

A questionnaire based tool that assesses the suitability of applications for deployment in containers within an enterprise Kubernetes platform, highlighting potential risks that should be considered when deciding which migration strategy to follow.

Administrator perspective

Dedicated perspective to manage tool-wide configuration, it has a similar approach and design to the OpenShift Administrator Perspective.

Enhanced RBAC

Three new differentiated personas with different permissions — Administrator, Architect and Migrator.

Integration with repositories

Full integration with source code (Git, Subversion) and binaries (Maven) repositories to automate the retrieval of applications for analysis.

Credentials management

Secure store for multiple credential types (source control, Maven settings files, proxy). Credentials are managed by Administrators and assigned by Architects to applications.

Proxy integration

HTTP and HTTPS proxy configuration can be managed in the MTA UI.

Enhanced analysis modes

Aside from source and binary analysis modes, now MTA includes the Source + Dependencies mode that parses the POM file available in the source repository to gather dependencies from corporate or public artifact repositories, adding them to the scope of the analysis.

Analysis scope selection

Simplified user experience to configure the analysis scope, with the possibility to force the analysis of known Open Source libraries.

Authless deployment

MTA can now be optionally deployed without Keycloak, allowing full unauthenticated admin access to the tool. This is especially useful when deploying the tool in resource constrained environments like local instances of Minikube, where only a single user would have access to it.

Additional migration paths

New transformation targets have been added to MTA:

Seamless upgrades

MTA lifecycle is now managed by a new operator with Capability Level II, allowing seamless upgrades between GA versions.

Transaction report

A new transaction report is now available in the application analysis reports. This new option analyzes the application data layer and provides detailed information about how transactions propagate across different layers, expressing it as a sequence of service entries, call graphs and SQL statements.