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Author's profile photo Harini Gunabalan

Consuming native Microsoft Azure services on SAP Cloud Platform

[UPDATED – 02.02.2021]

Disclaimer: The Multi-Cloud Foundation guide on “Integrating Microsoft Azure Services into Cloud Foundry on SAP Cloud Platform” is removed. Please use user-provided services, instead. See Creating User-Provided Service Instances. Hence some of the links in the blog below might not work anymore.

Hi Enthusiasts,

Often we are asked by our customers about the possibilities to integrate their SAP workloads with native hyperscaler services. SAP Cloud Platform’s cloud foundry environment provides a possibility to provision and to consume native hyperscaler services. In this blog post, let’s see how this is enabled with Microsoft Azure using the Open Service Broker for Azure(OSBA).

OSBA is an open-source API server based on the Open Service Broker API specification. It helps with provisioning managed services in the Microsoft Azure public cloud. The concepts of achieving this are based on Cloud Foundry and service brokers. The step-by-step tutorial on how to achieve this is available in the official documentation. The following image depicts a high-level overview of the steps described in the documentation:

Once the above-depicted integration is implemented, Azure native services such as Azure Database for MySQL, Azure Cosmos DB and so on are available in Cloud Foundry service marketplace as shown below:

With SAP’s multi-cloud strategy, we strive to provide our customers with seamless integration and reuse experience. Stay tuned for more use-cases and scenarios using the native services and I will be happy to hear your feedback as comments below.

 

Cheers,

Harini

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      Author's profile photo Ashwani Kumar Sharma
      Ashwani Kumar Sharma

      How is a customer charged when they use Azure service from CP? Via CP or directly on Azure?

      Regards, Ashwani Kr Sharma

      Author's profile photo Harini Gunabalan
      Harini Gunabalan
      Blog Post Author

      Great question Ashwani! The customers are directly charged by Azure for the Azure services consumed. The pre-requisite here is that the customer has an Azure account and SAP Cloud Platform account.

      Author's profile photo Jan Penninkhof
      Jan Penninkhof

      I think that’s exactly the thing to keep in mind, that this setup means that you will have 3 “vendors” at play.

      1. SAP for the SAP Cloud Platform
      2. Microsoft for the Azure services
      3. The open source community for the Azure service broker.

      You will be billed separately, but also support is delivered separately. I’ve played with this setup myself as well, and it works great. I would be very cautious moving this setup to production though, as end-to-end support will be hard to find.

      Author's profile photo Chan Jin Park
      Chan Jin Park

      Would be any further use case what we can think about? I was thinking

      1. Creation of simple HelloWorld on CosmosDB
      2. Creation of simple HANA service or using mobile service instance
      3. enable SAPUI5 link and push to Fiori app as data source (integration)

      something like this ? what could be ideal use case, anyone to share quick idea ?

      Author's profile photo Gov TOTAWAR
      Gov TOTAWAR

      Is this applicable to any service on Azure, the customer would like to spin up Hana on Azure and consume from SCP, is it still possible?