Deploying SAP Software in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Power SystemsThis IBM® Redpaper publication documents how to containerize and deploy SAP software into Red Hat OpenShift 4 Kubernetes clusters on IBM Power Systems by using predefined Red Hat Ansible scripts, different configurations, and theoretical knowledge, and it documents the findings through sample scenarios. This paper documents the following topics:
The target audiences for this paper are Chief Information Officers (CIOs) that are interested in containerized solutions of SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, developers that need containerized environments, and system administrators that provide and manage the infrastructure with underpinning automation. This paper complements the documentation that is available at IBM Knowledge Center, and it aligns with the educational materials that are provided by IBM GarageTM for Systems Education. |
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ABAP Ansible CLI Ansible Galaxy Ansible Roles Ansible Tower automation Building and deploying Checking the status complete the following containerization-for-sap-s4hana code repository containerized Create credentials defined deploying container images Deploying with Red Enterprise Linux V8 extra variables file system following command following steps Hat Ansible Tower helper node hostname HTPasswd IBM Power Systems IBM Redbooks identity provider install Red job template login LPAR managed_system mkdir NFS server ocp_base_url ocp_rhcos_base ocp-deployment.yml OpenShift cluster OpenShift Container Platform passphrase passwords playbook podman POWER8 PowerVM Red Hat Ansible Red Hat Enterprise Red Hat OpenShift requirements.yml restart root@ocp4-<helper_hostname running the following S/4HANA and SAP SAP GUI SAP HANA container SAP HANA database SAP installer SAP NetWeaver SAP S/4HANA SAP Solution Manager SAP system SAP workload scripts SELinux setup shown in Example shown in Figure software deployment SSH key trademarks worker nodes XXpasswd1 YAML yourhostname