Using AI to Migrate Projects from Any Version to the Latest

AI can assist manual migrations by reducing repetitive work and helping resolve breaking changes. It won’t replace the Manual Migration Process, but it can help reduce effort and accomplish the goal.

Workflow and AI-Assisted Steps

Step 1: Reorganize to New Layout (required only for legacy layouts)

AI helps ensure the project is structured with the new layout (main.go under cmd/, controllers and webhooks inside internal/). Review and verify the reorganization, then run make build to ensure it still compiles.

See Step 1: Reorganize to New Layout

Step 2: Discovery CLI Commands to Re-scaffold

AI analyzes your project and generates all Kubebuilder CLI commands to fully re-scaffold with the latest release. Create a backup (mkdir ../migration-backup && cp -r . ../migration-backup/), then execute the generated commands to scaffold a fresh project.

See Step 2: Discovery CLI Commands

Step 3: Port Custom Code

AI helps port your custom code from backup to the new scaffolded project. Review all changes carefully and ensure business logic is correctly transferred.

See Step 3: Port Custom Code

Step 4: Validate

Run make generate && make manifests && make build, then make test to verify all tests pass. Deploy to a test cluster and verify your solution still does the same thing.

See the Manual Migration Process for complete details.