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The benefits of containerized software in the deployment of applications are already well recognized and understood in the nuclear data community. In this regard, this paper describes how we migrated ADVANCE, NNDC’s continuous nuclear data quality assurance (QA) system, from the Buildbot CI/CD environment to an on-premise Kubernetes cluster of Docker containers which also serves as our new platform for automating the nuclear data pipeline. The new platform enabled the integration of NNDC’s GitLab server, ADVANCE server, applications development server and high-performance Linux cluster to provide a powerful environment for ENDF/B library verification and validation. Further, the new platform has provided the new ADVANCE system the reliability, scalability, security and rapid development and deployment of new functionalities essential to the QA process. Future plans on migrating other NNDC applications to the new ADVANCE system will also be discussed.