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Create visible workflows to achieve well-architected software.
Understand and use meaningful data to measure success.
Integrate and automate quality, security, and compliance into daily work.
Understand the unique values and behaviors of a successful organization.
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Learn how making work visible, value stream management, and flow metrics can affect change in your organization.
Clarify team interactions for fast flow using simple sense-making approaches and tools.
Multiple award-winning CTO, researcher, and bestselling author Gene Kim hosts enterprise technology and business leaders.
In the first part of this two-part episode of The Idealcast, Gene Kim speaks with Dr. Ron Westrum, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Eastern Michigan University.
In the first episode of Season 2 of The Idealcast, Gene Kim speaks with Admiral John Richardson, who served as Chief of Naval Operations for four years.
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DevOps best practices, case studies, organizational change, ways of working, and the latest thinking affecting business and technology leadership.
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SAP Installation from Two Months to Two Hours
This paper discusses the challenges of traditional SAP installations and presents a solution that leverages DevOps practices and open-source tools to automate the process. The author explains that manual SAP installations are time-consuming, error-prone, and lack the benefits of having resources in code, such as repeatability, centralized knowledge, and auditability.
The paper introduces an open-source project that automates the entire SAP installation process on AWS using tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins. Terraform is used for infrastructure creation, Ansible for preparation work and SAP software installation, and Jenkins as the central controller. The automation reduces the installation time from months to less than two hours and ensures a consistent, repeatable process.
The author also discusses the challenges encountered during the automation process, such as loading SAP libraries and packages into the Linux PATH variable, and how they were overcome. The paper concludes by highlighting the benefits of automating SAP installations, including increased maintainability, reduced dependency on highly skilled individuals, improved traceability and auditability, and faster feedback loops through intelligent parameter checks.
Reduce SAP installation time from months to less than 2 hours, saving valuable resources.
Eliminate manual errors and ensure a repeatable, standardized installation process.
Centralize knowledge and documentation through code, facilitating future updates.
Quickly provision SAP environments for sandboxes and training, enabling faster innovation.
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