You plan to deploy an SAP production landscape in Azure. You need to recommend a solution to automate the deployment. The solution must meet the…

The SAP on Azure Deployment Automation Framework is an open-source orchestration tool from Microsoft specifically designed to deploy SAP landscapes. It explicitly uses Terraform for infrastructure deployment and Ansible for operating system and application configuration. This architecture directly fulfills all the requirements: it is a Microsoft best-practice solution, it is built to support and be extended with Ansible customizations, and it automates the entire stack from the underlying Azure infrastructure to the OS configuration. This framework provides the flexibility and control needed for complex, customized production deployments.

A. SAP Landscape Management (LaMa): This is an operational tool for managing existing SAP landscapes (e.g., system copy/refresh, start/stop), not for the initial end-to-end deployment of the infrastructure and OS.

C. Azure DevOps Starter: This is a generic CI/CD service. While it could be used to build a custom deployment pipeline, it is not an SAP-specific solution that includes pre-built best practices for SAP.

D. Azure Center for SAP solutions: This is a managed Azure service that simplifies deployment through a guided experience. However, the SAP on Azure Deployment Automation Framework is the more appropriate choice when deep customization using Ansible is a primary requirement.

1. Microsoft Docs

"What is the SAP on Azure Deployment Automation Framework?": This document introduces the framework

stating

"The framework uses Terraform for the infrastructure deployment and Ansible for the operating system and application configuration." This confirms its use of Ansible and its role in deploying both infrastructure and OS.

Source: Microsoft Learn

Azure / SAP on Azure / Deploy / SAP on Azure Deployment Automation Framework / Introduction

Section: "What is the SAP on Azure Deployment Automation Framework?".

2. Microsoft Docs

"SAP deployment automation framework components": This page details the architecture

explicitly mentioning the use of Ansible. "The automation framework uses Ansible to run the configuration playbooks on the deployed machines. The Ansible playbooks are used for configuring the operating system

installing SAP software

and installing SAP HANA."

Source: Microsoft Learn

Azure / SAP on Azure / Deploy / SAP on Azure Deployment Automation Framework / Components

Section: "Ansible".

3. Microsoft Docs

"Get started with SAP deployment in Azure": This article compares deployment methods. It describes the SAP on Azure Deployment Automation Framework as the method for customers who need a "highly customizable" approach using a "collection of Terraform and Ansible scripts

" distinguishing it from the more guided Azure Center for SAP solutions.

Source: Microsoft Learn

Azure / SAP on Azure / Get started / Get started with SAP deployment in Azure

Section: "Deployment methods".

4. Microsoft Docs

"SAP Landscape Management": This document clarifies the purpose of LaMa

focusing on its role in post-deployment operations. "You can use SAP Landscape Management (LaMa) to operate and manage your SAP landscape running on Azure."

Source: Microsoft Learn

Azure / SAP on Azure / Manage / SAP Landscape Management

Section: "Overview".