Open source in the SAP world
- 1. ©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S 1 @ SIT Barcelona, October 11th 2019 Open source in the SAP world
- 2. ©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNT WHO AM I? 2 _ Morten Wittrock _ SAP Mentor _ SAP PRESS author _ SAP Inside Track Copenhagen co-organizer _ Frequent speaker at other SAP Inside Tracks _ Principal architect at KMD in Denmark _ SAP Community: https://people.sap.com/mortenw _ Twitter: @mwittrock
- 3. ©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S 3 Open source overview
- 4. ©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNTINTERNT PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE: WINDOWS 4 _ For a fee, Microsoft will license Windows to you _ To use the software, you must accept the terms of that license _ The license gives you the right to use the software _ You do not have the right to modify Windows _ The Windows source code is controlled by Microsoft _ You do not have access to it _ You have no way to follow the software’s development from the outside
- 5. ©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNTINTERNT OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE: LINUX 5 _ To use Linux, you still need to accept a license _ The terms of that license, however, are very different _ It gives you the right to not only use, but also modify the software _ You have access to the full source code _ Linux is developed in a very transparent fashion
- 6. ©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNTINTERNT OPEN SOURCE RUNS THE WORLD 6 _ Linux on the desktop never took off, but Linux and open source in general won everywhere else _ Today there are four mainstream consumer operating systems: _ macOS _ Windows _ Android _ iOS _ Three out of those four are based on open source _ In server operating systems, Linux is absolutely huge
- 7. ©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNTINTERNT OPEN SOURCE RUNS THE WORLD 7 _ Internet infrastructure like web, mail and DNS _ Cloud providers like Amazon and Google run their data centers on Linux _ Depending on which estimate, up to 90% of commercial applications contain OSS components like: _ Software frameworks _ Programming languages _ Libraries _ Databases
- 8. ©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNTINTERNT OPEN SOURCE LICENSES 8 _ Source availability ≠ open source _ Open source is all about the license _ The license lays out in detail what you can and cannot do with the software _ Contrary to proprietary software, open source licenses allow you to freely share and modify the code _ The Open Source Initiative is sort of (but not quite) a central clearing-house for licenses _ There are almost a hundred OSI-approved licenses
- 9. ©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNTINTERNT PERMISSIVE VS COPYLEFT 9 _ In practice, however, three licenses dominate: _ MIT _ Apache _ GPL (GNU General Public License) _ GPL is a copyleft license → It is sticky; derived works are automatically GPL as well _ The MIT and Apache are permissive licenses → “Anything Goes” + sublicensing is allowed
- 10. ©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNTINTERNT TESLA’S GPL VIOLATION 10
- 11. ©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S 11 SAP’s open source efforts
- 12. ©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNTINTERNT SAP’S OPEN SOURCE HISTORY 12 _ 1998: R/3 is ported to run on Linux _ 2004: SAP is a founding member of the Eclipse Foundation _ 2011: SAP joins the OpenJDK project _ 2013: OpenUI5 is open sourced _ 2015: SAP is a founding member of the Cloud Foundry Foundation _ 2017: SAP joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation _ 2018: The Gardener and Kyma projects are open sourced, OSPO established
- 13. ©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNTINTERNT SAP’S OPEN SOURCE HISTORY 13 _ Today SAP is a member of: _ The Linux Foundation _ The Cloud Native Computing Foundation _ The Cloud Foundry Foundation _ The Apache Software Foundation _ The Eclipse Foundation _ Et al _ More than 1000 SAP employees have made contributions to open source on GitHub
- 14. ©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNTINTERNT SAP’S OPEN SOURCE PROGRAM OFFICE 14 _ Established early 2018 _ Coordinates SAP’s many open source efforts _ Support and improve processes around open source inside SAP _ Engage with open source communities _ Increase visibility of SAP’s contributions
- 15. ©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNTINTERNT THE OPEN SOURCE BAR AT TECHED 15
- 16. ©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNTINTERNT OPENUI5 16 _ OpenUI5 is an open source web development framework _ Based on HTML5 and jQuery _ UI5 minus a few proprietary libraries _ Open sourced by SAP in 2013 _ Contributions accepted on GitHub since 2014 _ Not the first outbound SAP open source project, but probably the first widely known one
- 17. ©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNTINTERNT SAPMACHINE 17 _ SapMachine is based on OpenJDK (which SAP also contributes to) _ I.e. it is an open source Java implementation _ Basically a version of OpenJDK supported directly by SAP _ A “friendly fork”
- 18. ©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNTINTERNT GARDENER 18 _ Gardener is a tool that lets you manage your Kubernetes clusters _ The “Kubernetes botanist” _ Gardener itself runs on Kubernetes _ Work started in 2017, and the project was open sourced in 2018 _ Gardener made it into the TechEd keynote
- 19. ©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S 19 Community open source projects
- 20. ©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNTINTERNT SAPLINK 20 _ SAPlink is the first community open source project I came across _ Launched in 2006 by old-school SDN members Ed Herrmann and Dan McWeeney _ They won the TechEd Demo Jam that year _ SAPlink lets you share ABAP source outside of an SAP system and treat source code as text _ (Like most other languages out there) _ A spiritual ancestor to abapGit
- 21. ©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNTINTERNT ABAPGIT 21 _ abapGit is the most well known SAP community open source project _ The clue is in the name: It’s a Git client written in ABAP _ I.e. version control, collaboration, automation with GitHub Actions etc. _ The project was started by Danish SAP Mentor Lars Hvam _ In addition to Lars, the project has 76 contributors on GitHub _ Integrated into the SCP ABAP environment aka Steampunk
- 22. ©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNTINTERNT CPILINT 22 _ CPILint is an automated governance tool for SAP Cloud Platform Integration _ You set up governance rules, that you want your integrations to comply with _ The tool does the heavy lifting of checking whether your integrations are actually compliant _ Executable developer guidelines _ Developed by yours truly and released as open source in 2019
- 23. ©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNTINTERNT DOTABAP.ORG 23
- 24. ©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S INTERNTINTERNT LINKS 24 _ SAP Open Source landing page _ SAP on GitHub _ abapGit _ CPILint _ Dotabap _ OpenUI5 _ Gardener _ SapMachine
- 25. ©KMD _ Public - KMD A/S 25 Thank you!