Integrating DevOps Services into SAP's Strategic Operations Platforms

You can also use several parallel platforms to handle different use cases and solutions with various boundary conditions.

You can integrate Transport Management processes into strategic operations platforms from SAP to benefit from Change Management capabilities for your delivery approach.

This allows you to orchestrate the deployments performed by transport management from overarching central change and deployment management capabilities, like what you might already do in other SAP environments.

Also, this enables you to synchronize SAP BTP changes with changes performed in other environments, for overarching business solutions, and handle inter-dependencies between the single changes.

For example, to integrate SAP Cloud Transport Management into change and deployment management capabilities from SAP Cloud ALM:

For more information around SAP Cloud ALM and how to enable SAP Cloud Transport Management Service, follow these instructions:

SAP Cloud Transport Management Service | SAP Help Portal.

In many hybrid scenarios, the number of systems/subaccounts/tenants differs between the on-premise and the SAP BTP world (for example, if there's no Test subaccount in SAP BTP). This can lead to unwanted behavior of the strategic operations platforms when transporting content. Therefore, SAP Cloud Transport Management allows you to create virtual transport nodes that streamline transport landscapes without representing an actual deployment endpoint, as those nodes do not point to a target subaccount (no transport destination or content type is assigned).

For more information, see About Transport Nodes | SAP Help Portal.

Rotating Banana is an extensive user of SAP Change Request Management (ChaRM) Solution Manager. Also, it's planned to come up with hybrid solutions, running not only on SAP BTP, but also leveraging data points on SAP S/4HANA and extending SAP SuccessFactors. Therefore, for the time being, you decide to expand the usage of ChaRM to SAP BTP for hybrid solutions.

In parallel, for cloud-native applications running on SAP BTP, where not the full scope of ChaRM is not required, you decide to use SAP Cloud ALM's change and deployment management capabilities to gain first experience and prepare the stepwise transition of SAP operations processes towards this strategic platform.

If you should use third-party operations platforms, SAP Cloud Transport Management does offer open APIs that allow you to orchestrate SAP BTP transports from external tools.

You can integrate alerts and events from SAP BTP and related third-party event providers into central health monitoring capabilities. This allows you to get transparency on end-to-end business solutions.

For example, to integrate the SAP Alert Notification service of SAP BTP into SAP Cloud ALM, set up the service and follow these instructions: SAP Cloud ALM - Health Monitoring for SAP BTP Cloud Foundry

To centrally trigger operations flows on the business solution parts running on SAP BTP, integrate the SAP Automation Pilot service into SAP Cloud ALM as follows: Configure the Integration with SAP Automation Pilot.

To integrate the SAP Job Scheduling service with SAP Cloud ALM:

1. Set up the Job Scheduling service and follow the instructions.

2. Make sure you are onboarded to SAP Cloud ALM.

3. Edit your job to enable the SAP Job Scheduling service to send notifications to SAP Cloud ALM. To do that, switch on the respective toggles in the Edit Job dialog.

4. Check your events in the SAP Cloud ALM Job & Automation Monitoring Dashboard.

For more information, see SAP Cloud ALM Job & Automation Monitoring for SAP Job Scheduling Service Jobs (PaaS).

The Rotating Banana team may have multiple cloud applications in different spaces or subaccounts that use the SAP Job Scheduling service. Monitoring all these separate instances and their job executions can be challenging. The team can enable the SAP Cloud ALM monitoring integration in the Job Scheduling service to centralize monitoring. This integration allows them to monitor job execution health and detect anomalies during job execution. It also provides detailed information at the job execution level, facilitating fact-based root cause analysis for all their automation services in one place.

To ease troubleshooting of your cloud applications, you may use context-sensitive navigation from central observability capabilities, such as Exception Monitoring or Real User Monitoring in SAP Cloud ALM, to detailed analysis of logs, metrics, and traces, and integrate the SAP Cloud Logging service into SAP Cloud ALM.

For more information, see the SAP Cloud ALM for Operations Expert Portal. Your developers can then follow the SAP BTP Developer Guide, particularly the mission "Implement Observability in a Full-Stack CAP Application Following SAP BTP Developer’s Guide" to set up their application observability so that observability signals are consistently propagated to SAP Cloud ALM and SAP Cloud Logging.

If you should use third-party operations platforms, the SAP Alert Notification service and SAP Automation Pilot offer open APIs that allow you to receive alerts from SAP BTP and trigger automated operations tasks on SAP BTP from these third-party tools.

As an administrator at Rotating Banana, you use the SAP Alert Notification service to forward events from SAP BTP to SAP Solution Manager for your hybrid solutions. This way, you get complete transparency about the health status of your end-to-end business solutions in one central place – whether they run on SAP S/4HANA, SAP SuccessFactors, or SAP BTP.

For cloud-native applications, events from third-party event providers (such as your hyperscaler, Grafana, or Dynatrace) are forwarded into SAP Cloud ALM's health monitoring capabilities.

Integrate the SAP Cloud Logging service into SAP Cloud ALM to ease troubleshooting of your cloud applications, from context-sensitive navigation to detailed analysis of logs, metrics, and traces.

To reduce manual efforts, you integrate the SAP Automation Pilot service into SAP Cloud ALM to centrally trigger automatic alert remediation actions for your cloud-native applications on SAP BTP.

Integrating the SAP Job Scheduling service into SAP Cloud ALM lets you monitor job executions directly within the SAP Cloud ALM environment. You can track job statuses, view logs, and receive alerts, all from SAP Cloud ALM’s interface. This reduces the need to switch between different platforms.

You can now name the benefits of integrating local operations tools into central operations platforms – such as for orchestrating transports from central change and deployment management capabilities, for centrally receiving alerts of cloud parts of an overarching hybrid business solution, for combining central with local observability, and for centrally triggering the execution of technical operations tasks also on SAP BTP.

You can also name SAP's strategic operations platforms and describe options for integrating DevOps services from SAP BTP into them.

• Overview of strategic operations platforms from SAP: Application Lifecycle Management
• Integration of SAP Cloud Transport Management into change and deployment management capabilities from SAP Cloud ALM: SAP Cloud Transport Management Service
• How to use the integration of SAP Cloud Platform Transport Management into SAP Solution Manager Change Request Management and Quality Gate Management
• Integration of SAP Alert Notification service of SAP BTP into SAP Cloud ALM:
  • Set up the service
  • Then, follow these instructions: SAP Cloud ALM - Health Monitoring for SAP BTP Cloud Foundry
• Alerts from your SAP BTP Solution to SAP Solution Manager via SAP Alert Notification | SAP Blogs
• Integration of SAP Cloud Logging service into SAP Cloud ALM: SAP Cloud ALM for Operations Expert Portal
• Set up the observability of your custom SAP BTP applications in such a way that observability signals are consistently propagated to SAP Cloud ALM and SAP Cloud Logging: SAP BTP Developer Guide, in particular the specific mission "Implement Observability in a Full-Stack CAP Application Following SAP BTP Developer’s Guide"

• Integration of SAP Automation Pilot service into SAP Cloud ALM: SAP Cloud ALM - Configure the Integration with SAP Automation Pilot

• Integration of SAP Job Scheduling service into job and automation monitoring of SAP Cloud ALM: Job & Automation Monitoring SAP BTP - Monitoring SAP Job Scheduling Service Jobs.