Announcing the private preview of the Configuration and SAP Installation for the SAP Deployment Auto
Building upon our existing open-source Infrastructure as Code (IAC) deployment of a consistent and standardized platform for running SAP products, we take the journey one step further by introducing a framework for applying Configuration as Code (CAC) to the deployed compute resources. This allows us to continue the journey into the space of configuring the Operating System (OS), applying the SAP specific settings to the OS, and to install the base SAP product. With SUSE as a contributing development partner the goal is to address the initial OS configuration and hardening through review of the CIS Guidelines with a SUSE focus, followed by SAP application specific OS requirements. This modular, phase oriented, task driven approach enables the easy addition of new features and facilitates collaboration. SUSE also contributes the setup automation and configuration for HA setups of SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver servers, based on the SUSE best practice documentation. This provides an acceleration over a manual process that reduces the total run time, for creating all the infrastructure components to achieving your first logon to the SAP system, to approximately 2 hours. For this initial preview release we are focused on S/4 HANA as the pilot product. The capability for other products and databases will follow. Based on 4 days of elapsed time, this provides a 98% reduction in the time spent to build out an SAP system to the point of a base installation.
