This 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 Garage™ for Systems Education.
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Setting up the Red Hat OpenShift infrastructure
Chapter 3. Automated installation of SAP S/4HANA and SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems with Red Hat Ansible
Chapter 4. Building and deploying container images with scripts
Chapter 5. Building and deploying container images with Red Hat Ansible
Chapter 6. Operating the containers