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Deploy SAP Integration Suite - Edge Integration Cell - on Google Cloud Platform

AlexBishka
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‎2025 Mar 05 6:17 PM
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What is Edge Integration Cell?

Edge Integration Cell (EIC), part of the SAP Integration Suite, brings a powerful hybrid integration runtime that bridges the gap between the cloud and your private landscape. It provides the flexibility to seamlessly manage APIs and run integration scenarios within a controlled environment, combining the best of both worlds.

With its hybrid deployment model, EIC makes it easy to design and monitor integration content in the cloud, while still allowing it to be securely deployed and run in a customer managed private environment.

 

Use cases and Advantages of EIC

  • Security or compliance use cases: Sensitive data stays safely within an enterprise's firewall, following strict rules to keep it within a private environment.
  • Migration path for SAP Process Integration customers: EIC helps customers design and monitor integration content in the cloud, while keeping deployment and execution fully within their private environments.

This blog offers a step-by-step guide to deploying Edge Integration Cell on GCP, with two setup options: a quick setup for trying out the simplest setup and a high-availability configuration for production. Whether you're looking for a quick test or a scalable, production-ready deployment, this guide makes it easy to configure SAP BTP and GCP resources. Once the setup is complete, the SAP Integration Suite can deploy integration flows securely to on-premise setup using EIC.

 

Architecture

Both the quick setup and the high availability (HA) setup architecture for deploying EIC on GCP utilize Google Cloud Kubernetes Engine (GKE). The quick setup uses the default Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) in the region, with all storage handled by GKE’s default storage classes and smaller compute and storage resources for a simple and efficient deployment.

In contrast, the HA architecture is spread across at least three availability zones for redundancy, with dynamic storage managed by the GKE cluster, along with additional services like Cloud SQL PostgreSQL for persistence and Memorystore Redis for caching.

On the SAP BTP side, the Edge Integration Cell must be activated within the SAP Integration Suite. Once the EIC is configured and successfully deployed on the GCP GKE cluster, integration flows can be designed and seamlessly deployed to the new EIC runtime, combining the powerful integration capabilities of SAP Integration Suite with the customer managed resources on GCP.

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Edge Integration Cell setup overview on SAP BTP and GCP

Here is an outline of the steps involved in setting up and deploying Edge Integration Cell from SAP BTP environment to GCP.

Setup on GCP:

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 Setup on SAP BTP:

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You can find the detailed setup instructions in this GitHub repository.

 

Additional resources

Here are some additional resources

 

Conclusion

I hope this blog has helped you set up Edge Integration Cell on GCP, making it easier to connect SAP on-premise solutions with the flexibility to design and monitor integrations in the cloud. By following these steps, you can build secure, high-performing business applications that blend innovation with control in a safe environment.

I want to express my gratitude to our SAP team members, Adarsh Hedge, Madan Pichamuthu, and Sivakumar N for their valuable contributions, guidance, and support. If you have any questions, feel free to contact paa@sap.com.

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