Migrate to Linode on Linode Guides & Tutorials

Migrate a Disk Image to Akamai Cloud Using Cloud-Init

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The ability to migrate a virtual machine’s disk image across cloud providers is essential to cloud architecture durability and a key component of multi-cloud portability. There are numerous methods of migrating a disk image, several of which can be found in our documentation library: Migrate to Linode

Migrate From AWS Security Groups to Cloud Firewalls

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Groups are virtual firewalls that control inbound and outbound traffic to AWS resources like EC2 instances. They operate at the instance level and allow administrators to define traffic rules based on IP addresses, protocols, and ports.

Migrate From Azure Firewall to Cloud Firewalls

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Azure Firewall is a managed firewall service by Microsoft that provides stateful traffic inspection and filtering for Azure Virtual Networks. It allows administrators to define rules based on IP addresses, ports, protocols, and fully qualified domain names (FQDNs). It supports both application-level and network-level filtering.

Migrate From Google Cloud Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) to Cloud Firewalls

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Google Cloud Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is a network-level firewall that allows administrators to define granular rules based on IP ranges, ports, protocols, and service accounts. NGFW supports threat intelligence-based filtering and hierarchical policy enforcement, offering centralized control for securing workloads across projects and regions.

Migrate From AWS Secrets Manager to OpenBao on Akamai Cloud

Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

OpenBao is an open source secrets management tool and fork of HashiCorp Vault that provides teams control over how secrets are stored, encrypted, and accessed. OpenBao can be self-hosted in any environment, including on-premises and across multiple clouds.

Migrate From Azure Key Vault to OpenBao on Akamai Cloud

Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Migrate From GCP Secret Manager to OpenBao on Akamai Cloud

Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Migrate From Oracle Vault to OpenBao on Akamai Cloud

Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Self-Hosted vs. Managed DBs: Streamlining Database Administration

Thu, 15 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

Managed databases can offload many day-to-day responsibilities that database administrators (DBAs) traditionally hold when managing self-hosted databases, such as software patching and backup scheduling. By handling these tasks, fully managed services – like Managed Database Clusters on Akamai Cloud – allow teams to direct more attention to database performance tuning, data architecture, and operational alignment.

Migrate From AWS EBS to Linode Block Storage

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This guide describes the process of migrating a single volume from AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) to Linode Block Storage using the rsync file synchronization utility. This guide focuses on migrating secondary EBS persistent data storage volumes rather than migrating the root volume of an AWS EC2 instance.

Migrate from GCP Hyperdisk and Persistent Disk to Linode Block Storage

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This guide describes the process of migrating a single disk from Google Cloud Platform’s (GCP) Hyperdisk or Persistent Disk services to Linode Block Storage using the rsync file synchronization utility. This guide focuses on migrating secondary persistent data storage disks rather than migrating the boot disk of a Google Compute Engine instance.

Migrate From Azure Disk Storage to Linode Block Storage

Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This guide describes the process of migrating a single volume from Azure Disk Storage to Linode Block Storage using the rsync file synchronization utility. This guide focuses on migrating data disks from Azure Disk Storage and does not cover migrating operating system disks.

How to Migrate From AWS S3 to Linode Object Storage

Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Linode Object Storage is an Amazon S3-compatible service used for storing large amounts of unstructured data. This guide includes steps on how to migrate up to 100TB of static content from AWS S3 to Linode Object Storage using rclone, along with how to monitor your migration using rclone’s WebUI GUI.

How to Migrate From Azure Blob Storage to Linode Object Storage

Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Linode Object Storage is an Amazon S3-compatible service used for storing large amounts of unstructured data. This guide includes steps on how to migrate up to 100TB of static content from Azure Blob Storage to Linode Object Storage using rclone, along with how to monitor your migration using rclone’s WebUI GUI.

How to Migrate From Google Cloud Storage to Linode Object Storage

Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Linode Object Storage is an Amazon S3-compatible service used for storing large amounts of unstructured data. This guide includes steps on how to migrate up to 100TB of static content from Google Cloud Storage to Linode Object Storage using rclone, along with how to monitor your migration using rclone’s WebUI GUI.

Migrating a Google Cloud Platform VM Instance to Linode

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

This guide describes the recommended strategy for migrating your services from a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) VM instance to Linode. The specific steps you’ll need to carry out will vary depending on the software you use, but the high-level outline is generally the same regardless of the nature of your service. The Migrate to Linode section offers other guides which describe migrating particular services in more detail.

How to Migrate a cPanel Server to Linode

Tue, 21 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This guide describes how to migrate from a server running WHM and cPanel on another hosting service to Linode. This transfer is completed using cPanel’s official Transfer Tool. Prior to using the Transfer Tool, you will complete a basic WHM installation on a new Linode. Read the Best Practices when Migrating to Linode guide for more information about migrating your sites before beginning.

How to Migrate a WordPress.com Website to Linode

Tue, 07 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This guide describes how to export your content from WordPress.com and self-host your WordPress website on Linode. Read the Best Practices when Migrating to Linode guide prior to following this guide for more information about migrating your site.

Best Practices when Migrating to Linode

Tue, 31 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This guide describes the recommended strategy for migrating your services from another host to Linode. The specific steps you need to carry out vary depending on the software you use. However, the high-level outline is generally the same regardless of the nature of your service. The Migrate to Linode section offers other guides which describe migrating particular services in more detail.

How to Migrate a LAMP Website to Linode

Tue, 31 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This guide describes how to migrate a website running in a LAMP environment on another host to a new Linode. Read the Best Practices when Migrating to Linode guide prior to following this guide for more information about migrating your site.

Migrate from Shared Hosting to Linode

Fri, 18 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Migrating a Server to Your Linode

Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Note

The process for migrating a server image to your Linode will vary depending upon how the image was created. We recommend making an .iso file from your existing image, and then following the steps in our updated custom distribution guide to deploy it on a Linode. This guide is no longer being maintained, and the procedure outlined here is not recommended for new migrations.

You can migrate an existing server to your Linode from another hosting provider or a local machine. This is a great option if you’re moving to Linode from another hosting provider or if you’ve built a custom server on your local machine. You can even migrate virtualized servers created with products like VirtualBox or VMware. This guide shows you how to prepare the Linode to receive the files, copy the files from the existing server to the Linode, and then make the disks bootable.