Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The increasing demand for scalability, flexibility, and efficient resource management in enterprise applications has led to the adoption of Kubernetes and containerization technologies in a variety of domains, including SAP (Systems, Applications, and Products) environments. Kubernetes, an open-source container orchestration platform, alongside containerization, offers a robust infrastructure for deploying, managing, and scaling SAP applications. This paper explores the integration of Kubernetes and containerization within SAP landscapes, highlighting the benefits of improved deployment efficiency, resource utilization, and simplified management of SAP workloads. By containerizing SAP applications, organizations can achieve enhanced portability across different cloud environments and on-premises systems, reduce infrastructure overhead, and increase system availability. The paper further discusses the challenges, such as maintaining application state consistency, optimizing performance, and ensuring security, that arise when integrating SAP applications with Kubernetes. It also provides insights into best practices for effectively implementing containerization and orchestrating SAP applications, offering a strategic approach to modernize and optimize enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in a cloud-native ecosystem.
Authors: Sridhar Jampani, Sunil Gudavalli, Vamsee krishna Ravi, Prof. (Dr) Punit Goel, Akshun Chhapola, Er. Aman Shrivastav
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4414829651