Do you want to learn how to modernize 10-year-old Java applications to gain benefits from the cloud? Do you want to try this yourself, following step-by-step instructions? Then you should attend this session! Application modernization doesn’t happen overnight magically. Fortunately, it doesn’t have to. Application modernization is a journey with multiple steps where every step adds value which we will demonstrate via an open-source example. In the first part of this session we will focus on the development aspects and in the second part on deploying and operating the application with a GitOps workflow.