Enable Efficient DevOps with SAP Cloud Platform #SAPTechEd CAA112 Recap

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Definition and motivation

Development and operations and their view

Different views

Idea is to break up silos and work together for outcome

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DevOps – Ken Mugrage quote

Overcoming silos, work together

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Now apply to SAP projects

Start with ABAP environment, on premise, then to cloud, open approaches to languages

For ABAP look at the lightning talk: LT110 – Include ABAP in DevOps: Picture the Possibilities

CAA803 – Road Map: SAP Cloud Platform Development Tooling

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Focus on SCP

Several categories to build bridge between dev and ops

DevOps is a cultural thing; need to overcome barriers, establish agile environment

Plan & set up – set up infrastructure

Develop & test

Deliver & change – propagate in different environments – dev-test-prod in a controlled way

Monitoring and operating

Overarching topic – automate and operate, how to better improve approaches

Asterisks – topics that SAP is working on, plan on services in H12020

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SAP Cloud Platform planning and set up guide, how to start work with SCP – securing, support, lifecycle management activities

DevOps Planner – SAP is working on, plan on beta in Q1 next year

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Different tools that pop up

GitHub, integration with Jenkins, testing and automation

Use case, how to configure

Challenge is to manage DevOps tool zoo

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Use case: develop Fiori App, develop chain of tools, have tool chain and pipeline

This is currently in development

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Development – approaches

SAP Cloud Application Model – golden path of best practices – guides you to use core data services, goal to ease development

SAP Web IDE – access it from different front ends, have right set up, high integration with SAP Cloud Platform; use is optional, can still use Eclipse

iFlow, security content, authorizations, business rules, API Management – provide managed approach along lifecycle

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Related:

CAA160 – Getting Started with SAP Cloud Application Programming Model was briefly discussed

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How handle different dependencies

Cloud software – multiple modules, deployed to different run times; a driver for agility; use best knowledge for your development team

One application, desire one lifecycle – MTA – one archive for all things; a nice hand over between dev and ops

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When developers have changes, push to central repository (like GitHub), triggers CI server, pipeline on Jenkins, get direct feedback

Former times, piled into releases, and now smaller artifacts, a lot of automated testing and feedback cycles

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How apply CI to SAP Cloud Platform?

Best practices built on use cases

Improved best practices at Continuous Integration Best Practices with SAP

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Project Piper – internal team – Pipeline templates are on GitHub

Piper templates make sense if you have Jenkins in place; opening up for further frameworks

See CAA217 – Efficient Continuous Delivery in the SAP Ecosystem

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Example of opinionated pipeline is SAP Cloud SDK

CAA119 – Explore Extension Use Cases for the Intelligent Enterprise

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Operations can use archive to perform an automated deployment; deploys to right run time in the right order

Deployment can be triggered manually via command line or cockpit (upload) or a managed delivery process

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Continuous delivery – source code development, fully automated, central approach

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Automated approach, trigger delivery to run time

Could have conditions where this does not fit

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Option for transport management for delivery option – standardized change management, audit trail of changes, separation of concerns (dev to central teams, on-premise or hybrid applications)

2 approaches – change and transport system (to the right)

Also have SAP Cloud Platform transport management – cloud centric approach

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Have an on-premise CTS+ system, model logical representation of SAP Cloud Platform landscape

Changes are triggered from SCP to on premise system

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Link: How to integrate SAP Cloud Platform Transport Management into your CI/CD pipeline | SAP Blogs

Cloud-based SCP transport management

Use the cloud service to model landscape, target sub accounts

CTS+ can handle MTA

See CAA382 – Set Up and Use SAP Cloud Platform Transport Management

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High level change management around SolMan

Build clusters for development – on premise & cloud sub accounts

Can be integrated into Charm/quality gate process

See Session at SAP TechEd CAA215 – Change Control Management: Building the Bridge for CI/CD in Hybrid Solution

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Interplay with CI

Best practice to combine “best of 2 worlds”

Agile in development – CI, pipeline, development gets feedback, automated

Get closer to production, full control, delivery landscape based on transport rules

Approve changes to production for automation reasons

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Need for controlled production deployments

Tackle with central deployment service, get a history of deployments, analytics – how long for a deployment

Orchestration – SAP CP transport management

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Development is working on, mockups with an idea

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Native tools such as logging service, monitoring service

SAP Applications Lifecycle Management with SolMan and Focused Run

3rd party tools such as Dynatrace

See SAP TechEd session CAA216 – Observe and Control Your Applications Running on SAP Cloud Platform

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Alerting – want to be notified if there is an issue, for example, with the database

Offered by SAP Cloud Platform, subscribe to events

CAA216 – Observe and Control Your Applications Running on SAP Cloud Platform

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Automation, use cases

Certificate handling

High integration with DevOps services

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Automation services, to be offered (planned) Q1 2020

If issue with database, restart, or root cause; with automation pilot, could trigger corresponding command from alert

Provide catalog of predefined commands

CAA216 – Observe and Control Your Applications Running on SAP Cloud Platform

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Hybrid supportability with SolMan/Focused Run – integration monitoring – see data flows between cloud and on premise components

Exception management

User monitoring, server monitoring

Trace analysis of performance issue

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Planning for an integrated DevOps management service, a cockpit, manage DevOps tool chain

History, analytics data, notified early of possible issues, trigger remediation procedures

Still in definition phase H2 2020

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Overall story of DevOps, apply DevOps around SCP

Services planned next year

Span the different SAP Cloud Platform environments (Neo, Cloud Foundry, planned for ABAP SCP)

Support hybrid lifecycle approach

Multi cloud enabled with hyperscalers

Open for 3rd party tools, open source tools

Provide guidance, not tools

More insights at CAA809 – Road Map: DevOps for SAP

 

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