We are thrilled to announce a significant milestone in our partnership with SAP. After collaborative validation between Red Hat and SAP engineering teams, SAP Edge Integration Cell (EIC) is now officially supported on Red Hat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA) and Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO).
The official support for this is detailed in SAP Note 3247839 - Prerequisites for installing SAP Integration Suite Edge Integration Cell, which gives our customers the confidence to deploy a powerful SAP hybrid integration solution on our industry-leading managed OpenShift services in the public cloud.
What is SAP Edge Integration Cell?
For businesses navigating the complexities of the modern digital landscape, hybrid integration is key. SAP Edge Integration Cell, a component of the SAP Integration Suite, is a hybrid integration runtime that allows you to build, manage, and monitor APIs and execute integration scenarios within your own private landscape. This is crucial for use cases where data sensitivity and low latency are paramount, ensuring critical data remains on-premise or within your private cloud environment while still connecting seamlessly with cloud services.
Why OpenShift is the Ideal Platform for SAP EIC
Running SAP EIC on Red Hat OpenShift provides a scalable, secure, and consistent application platform, whether you are deploying on-premise or in the cloud. The solution leverages the power of the Kubernetes ecosystem, managed through OpenShift's robust, enterprise-grade features.
A key advantage is the use of the Operator Framework. For essential stateful services required by EIC, such as PostgreSQL and Redis, customers can easily deploy and manage enterprise-ready solutions like CrunchyData for PostgreSQL or Redis Enterprise directly from the Red Hat Marketplace. This simplifies Day 2 operations, automating tasks like updates, backups, and scaling, and ensuring these critical dependencies are managed to the same high standard as the OpenShift platform itself.
The Big News: Full Support on ROSA and ARO
Until now, running EIC on OpenShift was primarily focused on self-managed, on-premise deployments. With this official validation, customers can now extend their EIC deployments to the public cloud with our fully managed OpenShift offerings:
- Red Hat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA): Run a fully managed, jointly supported OpenShift service on Amazon Web Services.
- Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO): Deploy on a dedicated, jointly engineered OpenShift service on Microsoft Azure.
Below are some of the key benefits:
- Reduced Operational Overhead: Red Hat SREs manage the underlying OpenShift platform, freeing up your IT teams to focus on deploying and managing SAP workloads.
- Hybrid Cloud Consistency: Get the same OpenShift experience and tooling across your on-premise and cloud environments, simplifying management and workload portability.
- Enterprise-Grade Security and Support: Benefit from the combined expertise of Red Hat, SAP, and your chosen cloud provider (AWS or Microsoft) to ensure your mission-critical integration workloads are secure, reliable, and fully supported.
Getting Started
The joint validation work ensures that deploying SAP EIC on ROSA and ARO is a smooth process. The architecture leverages foundational OpenShift capabilities for networking and storage, including OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) for robust and flexible persistent storage.
For technical teams looking to deploy the solution, the Installation Guidance for SAP Edge Integration Cell on OpenShift provides detailed prerequisites, reference architectures, and step-by-step instructions.
We are excited to see how our customers will leverage this powerful combination of SAP's integration capabilities with the flexibility and reliability of managed Red Hat OpenShift on AWS and Azure.
To learn more, check out the official SAP Note 3247839 - Prerequisites for installing SAP Integration Suite Edge Integration Cell and talk to your Red Hat or SAP account team today!
Authors: Manjun Jiao & Joachim Kunze.
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