NOTE: As detailed in this blog, this functionality to provision Kyma will be removed from the SAP C/4HANA cockpit and be replaced by the SAP Cloud Platform Extension Factory, Kyma runtime. For more information about the SAP Cloud Platform Extension Factory, Kyma runtime see “Get a fully managed runtime based on Kyma and Kubernetes” and “How to get started”.
Recently, SAP announced the
SAP C/4HANA Foundation, which introduced the SAP C/4HANA Cockpit. The Cockpit provides numerous benefits to customers of the SAP C/4HANA Suite that are outlined in the aforementioned blog. One of the main features of the SAP C/4HANA Cockpit is the SAP Cloud Platform Extension Factory, which is the application extensibility framework founded on concepts and solutions from the
Kyma open-source project. This allows you to extend and customize your SAP C/4HANA solutions in a quick and modern way, using serverless computing and microservice architectures.
The SAP Cloud Platform Extension Factory of the SAP C/4HANA Foundation leverages managed Kubernetes offerings from hyperscaler cloud providers such as Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, etc for the runtime environment. In this blog we will walk through the process of provisioning the SAP Cloud Platform Extension Factory specifically on the Google Cloud Platform. Before proceeding, verify that you have access to the SAP C/4HANA Cockpit via
https://cx.cloud.sap. After signing in make sure you have access to the Extensibility menu. If you experience any issues accessing the cockpit refer to the
help for access information. You will also need to be assigned the Administrator role to complete these tasks, also detailed in the
help.
Google Cloud Platform - Configuration
The provisioning requires a few steps to be completed within the Google Cloud Platform which can be accessed using the link
https://cloud.google.com/gcp/. Sign in or create a new account if necessary and open the Google Cloud Platform Console.
NOTE: This process will only work on a Google Cloud Platform
trial account if you enable billing for the project which can be done within the Billing menu option and also upgrade the account in the quotas area found under the menu option IAM & admin.
The first thing we want to do is create a new project. We can use the
Project Selection drop down to do so, which is found on the left side of the header bar next to the Google Cloud Platform logo. Then choose the
New Project button to start the workflow.
Provide the desired details for the Project name and Location and choose
Create.
Once the project has been generated make sure it is selected as the current project in the project drop down, otherwise open the
Select a project dialog and select it.
NOTE: This process will only work on a Google Cloud Platform
trial account if you enable billing for the project which can be done within the Billing menu option and also upgrade the account in the quotas area found under the menu option IAM & admin.
The provisioning of the runtime requires some APIs to be enabled on the Google Cloud Platform. To do so either select the
Go to APIs overview button in the API tile in the project Dashboard or use the Menu option
APIs & Services ->
Dashboard
Within the APIs & Services Dashboard choose the
ENABLE APIS AND SERVICES button.
Three APIs need to be enabled:
- Google Cloud Resource Manager API
- Google Cloud Deployment Manager API
- Kubernetes Engine API
Within the API Library search and enable the three APIs. To enable the Google Cloud Resource Manager API enter in the API as the search string.
Choose the API.
And then choose
Enable.
Do the same for the
Google Cloud Deployment Manager API and
Kubernetes Engine API if they are not already enabled.
Next create a service account which will be used to authenticate the SAP C/4HANA Cockpit to the Google Cloud Platform. In the project menu select
IAM & admin ->
Service accounts
Within the Service accounts dashboard choose the
CREATE SERVICE ACCOUNT button
Provide a
name and
description for the Service account details and then choose
Create
In the next step we will assign the following roles to the service account.
- Compute Admin
- Kubernetes Engine Admin
- Security Reviewer
- Deployment Manager Editor
- Service Account User
This can be done by choosing the
Select a role drop down and then providing the role name within the filter option and finally choosing the role. For example, using the Compute Viewer role
After the role has been selected use the
ADD ANOTHER ROLE button to add each of the remaining roles.
Once all of the roles have been added choose the
CONTINUE button
Next create the necessary credential key to be used in the SAP C/4HANA Cockpit. Choose the
CREATE KEY button
Choose the
JSON option and choose
CREATE which will download the key to your computer.
Choose
DONE to complete the task.
You should now see your service account within the table which completes our tasks within the Google Cloud Platform.
SAP C/4HANA Cockpit - Provisioning
With the service account credentials configured we can now add them to the Cloud Provider Access Credentials list button by choosing the
Add New Credentials button within the
Extensibility menu option.
Provide a
Display Name, choose GCP as the
Provider and copy the entire contents of the downloaded key into the
Key field. Choose
Add after providing the values.
With the Credentials configured we can now provision our Runtime by choosing the
Provision a runtime button.
Then provide the desired values for your new runtime and finally choose
Provision.
This will initiate the provisioning process which will take some time to complete. Once the provisioning completes the status will change to PROVISIONED and you will then be able to open the Kyma Console.
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