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- 1. ©KMD©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S 1 The environments of SAP Cloud Platform @ #sitRIGA, September 14th 2019
- 2. ©KMD©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S WHO AM I? 2 _Morten Wittrock _SAP Mentor _SAP Inside Track Copenhagen organizer _Principal architect at KMD in Denmark _SAP PRESS author _I blog at https://people.sap.com/mortenw _Twitter: @mwittrock
- 3. ©KMD©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S 3 Environments overview
- 4. ©KMD©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S SAP CLOUD PLATFORM ENVIRONMENTS 4 _ The SCP environments are the platform’s development environments _ I.e. they offer tools and services that let you build stuff on the platform _ As of today, SCP offers the following environments: _ Neo _ Cloud Foundry _ ABAP
- 5. ©KMD©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S WHAT IS THE NEO ENVIRONMENT? 5 _ The only available environment when SCP launched in 2012 _ Hosts SCP services _ Offers three different application runtimes: _ Java, HTML5 and HANA XS _ Two database options: _ HANA and SAP ASE _ SAP proprietary
- 6. ©KMD©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S WHAT IS CLOUD FOUNDRY? 6 _ Open source PaaS released in 2011 _ Governed by the Cloud Foundry Foundation _ Infrastructure-agnostic: Runs on top of IaaS resources provided by a range of vendors _ Commercial offerings from IBM, SAP, Pivotal, SUSE and others _ Cloud Foundry containerizes your application with all libraries, dependencies etc.
- 7. ©KMD©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S WHAT IS CLOUD FOUNDRY? 7 _ I.e. your applications are independent of the underlying infrastructure _ CF buildpacks provide runtimes for a number of different languages and frameworks _ Like Neo’s runtimes, but generalized, pluggable and with more choices _ CF services are resources your application needs, like databases and message queues _ Like Neo’s databases, but generalized, pluggable and with more choices
- 8. ©KMD©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S CLOUD FOUNDRY IN A NUTSHELL 8
- 9. ©KMD©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S WHAT IS THE CLOUD FOUNDRY ENVIRONMENT? 9 _ Became generally available at SAPPHIRE NOW in May 2017 _ Hosts SCP services _ Many different application runtimes via buildpacks _ Many different database and supporting infra- structure options via services _ Do you see a pattern here?
- 10. ©KMD©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S WHAT IS THE ABAP ENVIRONMENT? 10 _ An ABAP PaaS _ Implemented on Cloud Foundry, but still considered a separate environment _ A subset of ABAP _ Not a NetWeaver system in the cloud _ I.e. no lift and shift of existing applications _ Uses the RESTful ABAP programming model _ No SAP GUI, BSP, Web Dynpro etc. _ Integrates the abapGit open source project
- 11. ©KMD©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S 11 Interacting with the environments
- 12. ©KMD©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S INTERACTING WITH THE NEO ENVIRONMENT 12
- 13. ©KMD©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S INTERACTING WITH THE CF ENVIRONMENT 13
- 14. ©KMD©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S INTERACTING WITH THE ABAP ENVIRONMENT 14
- 15. ©KMD©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S 15 Data centers
- 16. ©KMD©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S WHAT IS MULTICLOUD? 16 _ Introduced at the 2017 SAPPHIRE NOW conference _ Partnership with cloud infrastructure hyperscalers Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Alibaba _ → Greater choice in data centers around the world _ Why is that attractive? _ Better network latency _ Legal reasons _ “Data gravity” _ SAP Cloud Platform multicloud is CF only
- 17. ©KMD©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S NEO ENVIRONMENT DATA CENTERS 17 _ The Neo environment is only available on SAP data centers _ Multicloud = CF, so no Neo environment in non- SAP data centers _ As of now, SAP operates 13 data centers across the globe
- 18. ©KMD©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S CF ENVIRONMENT DATA CENTERS 18 _ The Cloud Foundry environment is only available in partner data centers _ The number of data centers is growing steadily
- 19. ©KMD©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S SERVICE AVAILABILITY 19 _ Some services only exist in Neo, others only in CF _ So pay attention to service availability _ Great overview: SAP Cloud Platform regions and service portfolio _ Check the individual product road maps
- 20. ©KMD©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S 20 Wrapping up
- 21. ©KMD©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S FINAL THOUGHTS ON NEO AND CF 21 _ There is a lot of overlap between what Neo and Cloud Foundry does _ But Cloud Foundry is more open and extensible _ SAP will continue to support Neo _ But future developments will focus on Cloud Foundry _ The writing does seem to be on the wall _ Keep service availability in mind when considering environments
- 22. ©KMD©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S CHOOSING AN ENVIRONMENT 22 _ Do you want/need to write in ABAP? → ABAP env. _ Do you need Neo exclusive services? → Neo env. _ Otherwise → Cloud Foundry env.
- 23. ©KMD©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S INTERNT KMD A/S HOW DO YOU GET STARTED? 23 _ Both Neo and Cloud Foundry are available in trial versions _ (The Cloud Foundry trial is time-limited at the moment) _ Go to cloudplatform.sap.com → Start your free trial _ An ABAP environment trial is planned for Q4 2019
- 24. ©KMD©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S 24 Thank you!