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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

Understanding Gardener

In many companies, it is the responsibility of a central infrastructure team to build and manage shared Kubernetes clusters, and teams are assigned namespaces to segregate the workloads. In a microservices architecture and DevOps model, teams are empowered to make decisions related to all aspects of any service, including the underlying infrastructure. A managed offering makes it much easier for teams to launch and operate their own Kubernetes clusters suited to their needs.

Gardener is a managed Kubernetes as a Service (KaaS) offering used as part of SAP BTP that works across on-premises and multiple cloud environments. In early 2017, SAP put together a small team to figure out how Kubernetes could work for SAP’s workloads. Later in the same year, SAP joined the CNCF community as a Platinum member. This effort led to the creation of Gardener, with its first open-source commit on October 1, 2018: https://github.com/gardener/gardener/commit/d9619d01845db8c7105d27596fdb7563158effe1...