SAP Container Platform
What Is a Container Platform?
A container platform is software that creates, manages, and secures containerized applications. Container management software allows for easier, faster networking and container orchestration. These platforms handle containerized application processes, such as governance, automation, layered security, extensibility, and enterprise support.
There are several types of container platforms:
- Container engines, like Docker and Docker Enterprise Edition, provide a container runtime environment, which enables organizations to create containers, manage container images, and perform basic operations.
- Container orchestrators, such as Kubernetes, enable organizations to manage, govern, and automate containers at scale.
- Managed container platforms, like Google Kubernetes Engine, augment container engines and orchestrators with additional services, like management of the orchestrator and underlying hardware resources.
What Is a Container Platform?
A container platform is software that creates, manages, and secures containerized applications. Container management software allows for easier, faster networking and container orchestration. These platforms handle containerized application processes, such as governance, automation, layered security, extensibility, and enterprise support.
There are several types of container platforms:
- Container engines, like Docker and Docker Enterprise Edition, provide a container runtime environment, which enables organizations to create containers, manage container images, and perform basic operations.
- Container orchestrators, such as Kubernetes, enable organizations to manage, govern, and automate containers at scale.
- Managed container platforms, like Google Kubernetes Engine, augment container engines and orchestrators with additional services, like management of the orchestrator and underlying hardware resources.
What is an SAP Container Platform?
SAP Business Technology Platform, Cloud Foundry environment, supports Docker containers, Kubernetes for virtualization, and containerization.
SAP HANA Express can use Docker containers to build scalable applications.
SAP has developed several open-source Kubernetes projects:
- Gardener, an open-source project offering operation of Kubernetes clusters as a service.
- Kyma, a cloud-native application runtime that combines Kubernetes with a set of tools and open-source components to develop, run, and operate cloud-native applications.
In addition, SAP uses Kubernetes for SAP Data Intelligence cloud service and SAP Data Hub on-premise enterprise data orchestration solution.
Further Resources for SAPinsiders
The Role of Containers in Digital Innovation. In this webinar, Chris Urwin, Head of COE, DevOps, SUSE, discusses how container-based, cloud-native apps orchestrated by Kubernetes are becoming the building blocks of the modern IT infrastructure. Urwin describes how containers can help organizations solve business challenges.
1150 results
-
SAP Business Connector 4.8 and SAP NetWeaver PI Compared: When to Use Each
Understand what integration platforms are and how you use them with SAP systems. Find out the similarities and differences between SAP’s two main integration platforms: SAP Business Connector and SAP NetWeaver Process Integration. Key Concept An integration platform is a server that facilitates data exchange between two (or more) heterogeneous systems, for example, an SAP...…
-
How to Move SAP Data Services from One Data Center to Another
Learn how to migrate an SAP BusinessObjects Data Services’ source data center to a target data center environment by following these step-by-step instructions. In this scenario, both the source and target systems are Windows-based servers. Key Concept The SAP BusinessObjects Data Services application delivers a single enterprise solution for data integration, data quality, data profiling,...…
-
A Primer for ALV Display with Integrated Data Access for SAP HANA
Learn about the basics and advantages of the Integrated Data Access version of the ABAP List Viewer and the steps required to create simple reports using the standard classes provided for this purpose. See how to access the field catalog and functions and how to specify sort and grouping criteria for your report output. Key...…
-
Persist Data for Your J2EE Applications with Less Effort Using Entity Beans with Container-Managed Persistence (EJB CMP)
If you are a Java programmer, then you are likely no stranger to the tedious and time-consuming process of writing SQL code for persisting Java objects in a relational database. This article introduces you to the support included in SAP Web Application Server (SAP Web AS) 6.40 for entity beans with container-managed persistence (CMP entity...…
-
A Primer for the ALV Display with Integrated Data Access for SAP HANA
Learn about the basics and advantages of the Integrated Data Access version of the ABAP List Viewer and the steps required to create simple reports using the standard classes provided for this purpose. See how to access the field catalog and functions and how to specify sort and grouping criteria for your report output.
-
A Look at Some Enhancements Under the SAP Transportation Management Hood
Learn about major enhancements introduced in SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) 9.1 that will help in managing transportation process across industries. Find enhanced transportation planning functionality that enables you to efficiently manage truck loads. Find out how functionalities such as the collaboration portal and strategic freight procurement enable close collaboration with your partners. Discover how...…
-
Make the Move to SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment with Confidence
A fully digital approach to operations enables not only efficiency, but also resiliency and stability during disruptive times, such as the COVID-19 crisis. Cloud-based solutions allow businesses to continue running at any time and from anywhere, and cloud-delivered software updates continuously add new features and improvements to help organizations run better. With SAP Cloud Platform…
-
Navigate Within WAD Reports Using Data Provider – Information (XML)
Understand the basic functionality of the Data provider – Information (XML) tool within Web Application Designer 7.0. A business scenario shows how to use it to navigate a report back and forth within a list of values. Key Concept One of the new objects in Web Application Designer 7.0 is the Data provider – Information...…
-
Introducing SAP Cloud Platform Credential Store
Most organizations today are somewhere along the journey toward becoming a digital business, with meeting high expectations for the customer experience a central driver. One of the keys to creating an exceptional experience is the ability to access data in back-end systems in real time, which means that robust integration is critical. This article introduces…
-
Built-In Protection with SAP Cloud Platform
Companies that successfully handle data security breaches rely on a balanced combination of regulatory compliance and security technology. This article explains how SAP Cloud Platform integrates these concepts to provide reliable, built-in protection for SAP customers. You will learn the difference between “security” and “compliance,” and how these concepts work together in SAP Cloud Platform…
Your request has been successfully sent