Welcome

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to explain how this SAP Expert Lecture is structured and identify the experts who will be presenting it.

Welcome

We’re excited to have you join this expert-led learning experience.

If you're new to this format, we recommend watching the short video What Are SAP Expert Lectures? — it provides a quick overview of what makes this format unique and what you can expect as a learner.

We hope you find the course engaging, insightful, and relevant to your professional development.

Content and quiz

This SAP Expert Lecture teaches you how to set up Terraform for SAP BTP. Topics include:

  • Getting Started with Infrastructure as Code
  • Setting Up a First Terraform Configuration
  • Enhancing the Terraform Configuration
  • Applying Advanced Terraform Concepts

Each video-based lesson includes downloadable materials available in the Downloads section at the end of the lessons. Once you’ve completed the course, test your knowledge with a short quiz to earn a Record of Achievement.

Hands-on practice

In this course, we offer a hands-on learning experience where you will follow a use case to create Terraform scripts and provision infrastructure on an SAP BTP trial account.

You will learn step by step how to automate cloud infrastructure provisioning and management, starting from a plain SAP BTP subaccount to a comprehensive setup comprising entitlements, service instances, subscriptions, and a Cloud Foundry environment:

Feedback and FAQ

We’d like to invite you to provide feedback on this course, the platform, and your overall experience with SAP Learning. Your input is important to us, as we’ll use it to improve the SAP Learning experience in the future:

  • You can provide feedback on lesson level using the smileys below the videos in the course.
  • To share your thoughts on your overall experience with SAP Learning, use the Feedback function in the top left corner of the course content.

You can find more information on general queries relating to SAP Expert Lectures on the FAQ page.

Meet the Experts

The course is presented by the following speakers and experts. Their experience brings practical insights into every topic covered in the course.

Instructor Christian Lechner

Christian Lechner is working as Development Architect. His work focus is all things Terraform on SAP BTP. Spreading the word about Infrastructure as Code and especially Terraform Christian is a regular speaker at different community events like SAP inside Track.

Sharing knowledge is close to his heart, so you can find a lot of blog posts as well as code samples on GitHub that make the topic more tangible for you.

Follow Christian Lechner on LinkedIn

Instructor Rui Nogueira

Rui Nogueira is Vice President SAP BTP with over 20 years of experience in applying information technology in a wide range of industries. He holds a graduate degree in electrical engineering.

After working in software development in the automotive industry for 10 years, Rui joined SAP in 2005, where he has worked in various roles in development, product management, and strategy. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences and SAP events and has been an instructor for various openSAP courses.

Follow Rui on LinkedIn.