Beyond SAP Cloud - Episode 10: BTP Cloud Foundry Spaces

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In this episode, we explore the concept of spaces within SAP's Business Technology Platform (BTP). Spaces allow for organized development environments within sub-accounts, enabling selective access to applications, such as HR or finance, ensuring sensitive data is secured. We differentiate spaces from subaccounts, focusing on the benefits of spaces for project management and access control. Additionally, we highlight the importance of memory quota management for spaces, with a look ahead to further exploration of quota configurations in the next episode. Spaces offer a streamlined way to manage resources and permissions efficiently.

Takeaways

• Spaces in BTP allow additional organizational levels for Cloud Foundry runtime in subaccounts.
• Cloud Foundry runtime offers the ability to create spaces for specific project deployments.
• Developers can be given restricted access to specific spaces, ensuring security for sensitive applications.
•  The main difference between a space and a subaccount is that business users are associated with subaccounts, not spaces.
• In scenarios where identifying different business users is needed, a new subaccount is required.
• If business user identification is not necessary, adding an additional space is recommended.
• The same Cloud connector can be used in multiple spaces, benefiting from the same configuration in the sub-account.
• Roles and trust configurations are managed at the subaccount level, not the space level.
• Spaces require configuration of quotas, including memory allocation for Cloud Foundry.
• Quotas in spaces provide full control over the memory consumed by Cloud Foundry in each space.
• The next episode will dive deeper into how to assign quotas for better resource management.