SAP Hybris / E-Commerce – containerize, deploy on Kubernetes environments
SAP declared the End of Life for Hybris /E-Commerce on-premise product, and customers must migrate to SAP Hybris/E-Commerce on Cloud. SAP is containerizing Hybris/E-Commerce as part of commerce cloud and deploying onto Kubernetes on SAP Commerce Cloud.
Why the Customer should containerize the SAP Hybris/E-Commerce and How?
Advantages of containerizing SAP Hybris /E-commerce:
- High Availability, Auto Scaling on-demand
- Rapid development as containers once, simplify the deployment of Hybris/E-Commerce as aspect/nodes to deploy onto customer’s choice Kubernetes
- Build once, deploy multiple environments, and multiple aspects/nodes in each environment
- Easy to do DEV, QA, Integration tests, and faster development life cycle
- Easy to migrate/deploy SAP Commerce Cloud for production deployments
- Easy to implement Deployment, Rollback, DR strategies
How to containerize Hybris/E-Commerce:
- SAP E-Commerce is a software and involves complexities in containerization.
- build Aspect to deploy Hybris different nodes – Backoffice/Cocklpit/Job Node/Commerce Connect/Storefront
- Build Helm Charts, configure values-env.yaml for each environment
- Use CI/CD Tools to build and deploy on Kubernetes to support agile methodologies