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DevOps in SAP ABAP Landscapes
SAP Inside Track Berlin 2018
Sascha Junkert, Festo AG & Co. KG
Email: sascha.junkert@festo.com
Twitter: @SaschaJunkert
Last Update: Aug. 31st 2018

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Agenda
1. DevOps? Motivation & Definition
2. Development in ABAP & NonABAP Landscapes
3. 5 vs. 4 System Landscape (with Feature Toggles)
4. Test Management
5. (Cultural) Change Management
6. Summary and Capability Map

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- Started in July 2017 by EWE and Festo
- What is DevOps? Why is it such a rarity in the ABAP community? How can we leverage the
existing methods and practices?
- Focus on knowledge exchange between SAP customers
- Collaboration with SAP product mgmt.
- Eight meetings since August 2017 in Walldorf, Germany
- Around 50 members
DSAG: DevOps Working Group

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DevOps?
DevOps…
“Getting rid of Operations”
“Another buzzword for build and
deployment automation”
“A team that moderates
between Dev and Ops”
“Isn’t that just a
new word for ‘agile’?”
“It’s a mindset thing”
“Does DevOps manage
business or technology problems?”
“Does DevOps ‘solve’ ITIL?”
“Full-Stack DevOps Engineers”
“Infrastructure Automation –
CHEF, Puppet, Saltstack, …”
“Two-Pizza Teams”

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The Core Values Of DevOps (CAMS)
Continuous
Integration & Delivery
Infrastructure
Provisioning
Test Management
Source: http://devopsdictionary.com + http://itrevolution.com

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Classic ABAP Development
DEV QAS PROD
SE80
Eclipse ADT
SE80
Sandbox
Project
DEV System
Source Code Repository
Build Environment
Artefact Repository
Runtime environment
↯ ↯
CTS CTS

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Development in NonABAP Landscapes

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Continuous Integration
Source: https://martinfowler.com

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ABAP Development with abapGit (1)
DEV QAS PROD
Source: https://blogs.sap.com
Git Repository
Push
Change & Push
SE80
Eclipse ADT
SE80
CTS CTS
master
abapGit
• Code versioning and backup
• Enabler for code reviews
• Enabler for experiments und rollbacks
• No replacement of CTS
• Open Source Projects: dotabap.org

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ABAP Development with abapGit (2)
DEV QAS PROD
Source: https://blogs.sap.com
Git Rep.
Dedicated DEV System
Pull Push Pull
Trunk 2
CTS CTS
Master
Dedicated Dev Systems
• Parallel development and experiments
• abapGit as central source code repository
• Continuous integration required (syncing)
• Increased maintenance effort and costs (↯)
Dedicated DEV System
Dedicated DEV System

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5- vs 4-System Landscapes
5 Systems
with Release & Maintenance Track
4 Systems
with Feature Toggles
DEV1
QAS PRODDEV2
TEST
DEV PRODQASTEST

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Success Factor: Feature Toggles
Open Source: https://github.com/BTCAG/Featuretoggle
Quelle: EWE AG / BTC AG

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Success Factor: Test Management
Testing starts with
requirements
Business Process
Mgmt.
Automated
Regression testing

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Success Factor: (Cultural) Change Mgmt.
#NoSilos Agile Mindset TDD / Shift Left OOP, UI5, S/4, …
RED
GREEN
REFACTOR ABAP

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Summary
DevOps and objectives need to be clearly defined
ABAP development must evolve (CI/CD  #ABAPisNotDead)
Automated testing is a requirement for fast release cycles
(Cultural) change mgmt. is the critical success factor
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DevOps for ABAP Capability Map
IDE (Eclipse
ADT, SE80)
Source Code
Repository
(abapGIT)
Continuous
Integration
Agile & TDD
Mindset
Static Code
Checks
(ATC,
Code Inspector)
Feature
Toggles
Development
Continuous
Delivery
Configuration
Management
System
Provisioning
(LaMa,
Container)
Capacity
Mgmt.
Dashboards
Dev / Build
Environment
Provisioning
Infrastructure
Automation
Change Impact
Analysis
(BPCA)
Performance &
Load Tests
Functional
Acceptance
Tests
Regression
Tests
Test Automation (CBTA, …)
Code Review &
Discussion
Quality
Development
KPIs
Application
KPIs
Monitoring
Infrastructure
&
System
Monitoring
(Automated)
Unit Tests
(abapUnit)
Transport
Management
Business
Process
Documentation
CultureandChangeMgmt.
ABAP Objects
Development
Guidelines
“Requirement
to Test”
Process
Infrastructure
KPIs

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Thank you!
Questions?
Next DSAG DevOps Meetup:
ABAP Deployment Pipelines (with Git and more)
Sept. 17th in Walldorf

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