Episode 141: myNewsWrap – SAP and Microsoft

Welcome to this week's edition of myNewsWrap, news from the world of SAP, Microsoft and the world in between.

SAP Universe - from the community

Let's us start with the SAP side of the house i. e. news around the Business Technology Platform and news from the broader SAP ecosystem:

• THE news of this week (and yes I am proud to be part of that): Terraform provider for SAP BTP now available for non-productive use - your find it here
  • GitHub Repo
  • Samples Repo
• SAP BTP, Kyma Runtime modularization framework is going live by Varban Vasilev
• CIOs vermissen bei SAP den End-to-End-Fokus

Microsoft Universe

Now let's look at the Microsoft universe.

Azure Functions/Serverless

Here is what happened this week in the serverless space like Azure Functions and Static Web Apps .. no news this week

Containers, Azure Container Apps and Kubernetes

From Serverless to Containers, Azure Container Apps and Kubernetes - what did this week provide us with?

• Slides and code samples: Azure Container Apps: Endlich Serverless?! by Thorsten Hans
• GitHub samples: ContainerApps Blue-Green Deployment

All things Dapr

• Dapr Community Call #85
• Local Development of Cloud-Native Apps Using Dapr and Testcontainers by Mauricio Salatino and Oleg Šelajev
• Building invincible microservices with Dapr Resiliency by Aaron Crawfis and Nick Greenfield
• 9 - Dapr - Resiliency by Martino Bordin
• Open at Microsoft: Dapr by Aaron Crawfis
• How to use the Dapr Workflow building block

GitHub & DevOps

What happened in the area of DevOps and esp. GitHub - let's see:

• Using bicep and Azure DevOps to deploy your Logic Apps (Standard)
• Deploying Azure Email Communication Service with Bicep by Thomas Pentenrieder
• Azure access from GitHub and GitLab pipelines - without secrets by Christian Geuer-Pollmann
• Using Workload Identities for Bicep Deployments in GitHub Actions by Will Velida
• Terraform import blocks to import Azure resources into Terraform by Thomas Thornton

GitHub security and Dependabot

• Security risk and coverage pages are now generally available and replace the enterprise-level overview page
• Grouped version updates for Dependabot public beta

GitHub Actions

• Introduction to GitHub Actions by Anaïs Urlichs
• Security Scanning in your CI/CD pipeline through GitHub Actions with Trivy by Anaïs Urlichs
• New tool to secure your GitHub Actions by Jaroslav Lobacevski
• GitHub Actions – Actions Runner General availability

GitHub other topics

• The economic impact of the AI-powered developer lifecycle and lessons from GitHub Copilot by Thomas Dohmke

🐱‍👤 SAP and Microsoft - Combining both worlds

Now let's enter the twilight zone (no worries the ninja cat is with us) between SAP and Microsoft and see the magic happening when we combine both worlds:

• SAP S/4HANA Cloud ABAP Environment integration journey with Microsoft – Part 1 by Martin Pankraz
• SAP Security with Microsoft Sentinel's SOAR Capabilities by Martin Pankraz
• SAP on Azure Video Podcast #149 - The one with SAP, Azure Open AI and Power Virtual Agent (Michael Mergell)

Learning and Events

We always want to learn, so here are some links to some interesting learning resources and upcoming events:

• AMA with Thomas Maurer about Azure certification on Reddit - a lot of helpful content
• Pulumi Workshop: Pulumi: Production Ready Kubernetes Workshop by Engin Diri
• Illegale Softwarearchitekturen by Gerrit Beine

Golo's Corner

As a regular guest and due to the high-quality content here an overview what Golo Roden provided us this week:

• KI, Machine-Learning, ChatGPT, Deep-Learning & Co. einfach erklärt! // deutsch
• AI, Machine Learning, ChatGPT, Deep Learning & co. simply explained! // English

And with this enjoy your weekend and have a successful next week!