Best Practice 3.6 – Use automation to perform SAP landscape operations

Create automation pipelines for your SAP environment builds and landscape operations. Automation using Infrastructure as Code techniques (for example, CloudFormation, Launch Wizard for SAP) allows repeatable and agile environment creation or extension. Automated pipelines and landscape operations reduce errors caused by manual processes, reduce the effort to deploy changes and improves speed to react to your business needs.

Create automated SAP landscape operational pipelines that allow you to perform common environment tasks in an automated fashion (for example, System Copy, Start SAP, Stop SAP, Scale SAP). Invoke these pipelines in response to operational events such as time-based system shutdown or automatic scaling due to user load.

Suggestion 3.6.1- Implement infrastructure as code techniques to create repeatable and code-driven build pipelines for your SAP landscape

Use tools such as AWS CloudFormation, AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) or AWS Launch Wizard for SAP to create repeatable, controlled and quick environment deployments.

Suggestion 3.6.2 - Implement common SAP landscape operations with automation

Use orchestration and infrastructure as code (IaC) tools in combination to perform your common SAP landscape operations in an automated fashion. Tools such as AWS CloudFormation, AWS Systems Manager – Run Automations, SAP Landscape Management (LaMa) and AWS Lambda can be orchestrated to perform common SAP landscape operations in deployment pipelines.

Consider third-party automation tools where complex or deep integration between tools is required (For example: Terraform, Ansible, Chef).

Consider using automated operations as responses to SAP workload events to allow a self-healing and self-maintaining landscape.