Hello and welcome to the SAP HANA Academy.
The topic of this video tutorial series is SAP Cloud Platform, Getting Started
and in this video I will give you a quick tour of the SAP Cloud Platform Cockpit.
This video has been recorded in August 2018.
Processes and the look-and-feel of the platform, the user interface, may change.
For the most recent tutorial videos on this topic, please check the playlist on the SAP HANA Academy.
Hi, I am Denys van Kempen.
OK —in the first video of this series, we started on cloudplatform.sap.com and signed up for a free account
for the SAP Cloud Platform, developer edition.
We ended up on the Cloud Platform Cockpit, home page.
So, what do we got?
We have a menu on the left (the hamburger): Home, Regions, Services.
Useful links to the documentation
Opt-in or opt-out —up to you.
This is the SAP Help Portal, the site for product documentation.
We are directed to the section that explains what the cockpit does: web-based administration interface…
Use the cockpit to manage resources, services, security … and so on.
The Release Notes, also on the Help Portal, provide the latest information about what
has been released —and even a preview of upcoming releases.
To get notified, you can subscribe to the SAP Community WIKI
we talked about the community in the previous video.
To get the overview page of all SAP Cloud Platform documentation, by the way, just click the header.
Here we all the documentation.
Administration, Development, Support, Training and Education, and so on.
Tools brings us to the location where we can download software for SAP Development Tools.
The Cloud Platform is, of course, web-based and includes a 100% web-based development environment,
the SAP Web IDE.
However, if you prefer, we also have an SDK and client tools for Eclipse, mainly, and
Cloud Foundry, which you can install on your local development environment.
We will talk about this in subsequent videos.
The URL of this page is tools.hana.ondemand.com —you might want to bookmark it.
ondemand.com, not sap.com.
What’s up?
Well, if we return to our Cockpit Home page, you can see that we are on the same domain.
No worries, you have not been hacked.
Once upon a time, back in 2012, I believe, SAP started to cloud-enable its technology stack.
SAP Netweaver.
The first piece was the Netweaver Portal and the URL used at the time, is still the one used today:
ondemand.com
Internal code name for the project: NEO and, for some time, under the HANA branding umbrella.
So, that’s why we have tools.hana and account.hanatrial.
Who knows? This may switch to sap.com some day, or not.
Other Useful Links, include the Developer Tutorials, we already looked at them in the previous video,
Support, the SAP Community (same thing) and a newsletter you can sign-up for.
Legal Information is where you can find the Terms of Use back ag ain, in case you want to double check.
OK — In the header, another menu for User Settings, change the theme, different languages (Asian),
and a link to news and announcements.
On the home page, more links.
Next Steps include the same links to the tools, documentation, and tutorials.
Here we can also launch the SAP Web IDE, we will talk more about this tool in another video,
and we already got a full playlist about Web IDE on the SAP HANA Academy covering
the tool and what you can do with it from A-Z.
As mentioned, the Cloud Platform, is SAP’s Platform-as-a-Service offering where you can
run and create cloud applications and the Web IDE, for most scenarios,
will be an excellent choice to start your development.
The Learning Center is included.
Take a look at the Walk Through.
And there are many more tutorial videos to choose from.
The same ones which you can find on the SAP Development Center, by the way,
we already looked at that.
Now for those of you that are familiar with other cloud providers, the SAP Cloud Platform Cockpit
essentially serves the same purpose as, say, the console of Amazon Web Services
with its many services, and regions.
Same for the Google Cloud Platform Console.
Here we have the hamburger, and lots and lots of services.
Microsoft Azure has a Dashboard.
Lots of services and a marketplace, they all have a marketplace
Same for the SAP Cloud Platform cockpit - we are in the cloud, not on the road, so we need
a cockpit, of course, not a dashboard.
Here we have our services.
71 today, and counting.
New services are added all the time.
Analytics, Blockchain, Data Management, and many more
For Regions, we have Cloud Foundry Environment regions and Neo Environment regions.
For the Trial, we are using SAP’s data center in Rot, in Germany.
For production, other regions are available.
These are all SAP data centers for the Neo environment.
Neo is only hosted by SAP.
Cloud Foundry is not hosted by SAP, but by Amazon ( AWS), Azure or Google.
When new regions are added, this will be announced in the News section.
Here we can see that our Home for the trial is in Europe (Rot), so this is SAP-hosted.
So, how does this work with these environments?
Well, for the fine-print and the details, you can look this up, in the documentation.
SAP Cloud Platform, Environments.
Cloud Foundry, Supported and Unsupported Features.
When to use which environment?
Use cases.
Basically, you would use Neo to integrate and extend with the traditional SAP landscapes,
be it in a company data center or hosted.
Java development mainly, and HTLM5 (SAPUI5. Fiori).
Cloud Foundry is a more likely candidate if you want to develop applications using the latest technologies:
cloud-native, micro-services, Internet of Things, machine learning, blockchain, and so on.
Supports multiple runtimes, not just Java, but also Node.js, Python, and you can bring your own;
run any language: Ruby, PHP, etc.
Cloud Foundry integrates with SAP HANA XS Advanced (XSA).
It is the same technology.
So you can develop and run XSA applications on-premise, and switch to cloud deployment,
or vice versa.
Single command, CF PUSH, very easy.
Now, for those less familiar, you can think of Cloud Foundry as Linux.
It is open source. It is not SAP technology, and we have different 'distributions'.
Go to cloudfoundry.org from more information.
You can run Cloud Foundry in the IBM Cloud.
Or on Amazon, or on Google Cloud.
Both use Pivotal, that’s the original implementation from VMware, where it comes from, but like
I said it is open source, so you can create your cloud foundry implementation and in a
way, that’s what SAP has done with XS Advanced.
So, we have these environments.
Both are part of the SAP Cloud Platform but they are separate entities.
You can start your Neo Trial, trial duration unlimited.
We can do that, it is SAP hosted.
Java and HTML5
38 services.
Some are only available for Neo.
Connectivity to SAP back-end systems.
Security for single-sign on
and you can start your Cloud Foundry trial.
This will be hosted by 3rd party and so the duration is limited to 90 days.
You can start your trial in any of the supported regions.
Pick the one closest to you, or your back-end systems if you want to integrate, or your customers.
It all depends
and the environment is setup for you.
Notice that we have a global account, a subaccount, an organization and a space.
This we will discuss in a next video.
Here we have our cloud foundry environment with its services.
OK — so much for introduction.
In the next video, we will look at a production environment, and discuss global accounts.
In the mean time, you can use the Get Started link for the Cloud Foundry and Neo environments.
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