Book Image

Architecting Solutions with SAP Business Technology Platform

By : Serdar Simsekler, Eric Du
Book Image

Architecting Solutions with SAP Business Technology Platform

By: Serdar Simsekler, Eric Du

Overview of this book

SAP BTP is the foundation of SAP’s intelligent and sustainable enterprise vision for its customers. It’s efficient, agile, and an enabler of innovation. It’s technically robust, yet its superpower is its business centricity. If you’re involved in building IT and business strategies, it’s essential to familiarize yourself with SAP BTP to see the big picture for digitalization with SAP solutions. Similarly, if you have design responsibilities for enterprise solutions, learning SAP BTP is crucial to produce effective and complete architecture designs. This book teaches you about SAP BTP in five parts. First, you’ll see how SAP BTP is positioned in the intelligent enterprise. In the second part, you’ll learn the foundational elements of SAP BTP and find out how it operates. The next part covers integration architecture guidelines, integration strategy considerations, and integration styles with SAP’s integration technologies. Later, you’ll learn how to use application development capabilities to extend enterprise solutions for innovation and agility. This part also includes digital experience and process automation capabilities. The last part covers how SAP BTP can facilitate data-to-value use cases to produce actionable business insights. By the end of this SAP book, you’ll be able to architect solutions using SAP BTP to deliver high business value.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Part 1 Introduction – What is SAP Business Technology Platform?
4
Part 2 Foundations
8
Part 3 Integration
12
Part 4 Extensibility
16
Part 5 Data to Value

Containers and Kubernetes

Cloud-native patterns and new cloud operating systems based on containers and Kubernetes have been growing rapidly over the past few years. Together with solutions through the viable ecosystem of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF - https://www.cncf.io/), they have changed the development, delivery, and life cycle management of modern software.

Containers and Kubernetes have become the important cornerstones of building, running, and managing cloud services and applications. Like virtual machines (VMs), containers enable applications to share the OS kernel. Compared to VMs, a running container is less resource-intensive but retains isolation, thus improving resource utilization.

Containers are decoupled from the underlying infrastructure and portable across cloud and on-premises environments. Containers are created from images to produce identical environments across development, testing, and production deployments. Containers provide a good...