Hello Kyma community,
the Kyma team is happy to announce the SAP internal availability of SAP BTP, Kyma runtime on SAP Converged Cloud in the eu-de-1 region. This is the first stage of gradual enablement in non-restricted regions that should culminate in the general availability of Kyma on SAP Converged Cloud for all SAP customers. With that, we will do our part to deliver the SAP BTP Everywhere promise.
We started on this journey almost two years ago. The feedback we received from a limited pilot early last year guided our efforts towards delivering the best possible user experience to enable our customers to seamlessly adopt and benefit from SAP Converged Cloud. In turn, we ensure that our customers can start their migration efforts or new development today without additional effort or cost compared to major hyperscalers.
Right now, internal SAP teams can simply enable Kyma on SAP Converged Cloud via the SAP BTP Cockpit and start using the SAP BTP platform in the SAP Datacenter just like you would on the other hyperscalers. There is no need to manage infrastructure accounts and quotas, install and upgrade Kubernetes, or worry about infrastructure monitoring and security scanning. The Kyma team handles all day two operations related to infrastructure and available modules, so you do not have to.
You can immediately connect your applications to most SAP BTP services (from the nearby cf-eu20 region today) or SAP HANA Cloud instances even if the whole of BTP is not running on SAP Converged Cloud yet. We made sure that all currently available Kyma modules run smoothly and do not require specific configuration for SAP Converged Cloud.
There are some limitations we are working on. For example, it is not currently possible to set up the hyperscaler equivalent of VPC peering within or outside SAP Converged Cloud. Nor is it possible to connect to HANA Cloud instances via private networking (which is the case on hyperscalers as well).
Stay tuned for more updates, and give Kyma on SAP Converged Cloud a try in the meantime!
To learn more about SAP BTP, Kyma runtime please read and follow our other blogs, and visit the SAP BTP, Kyma runtime site.
