PED-12023: Ansible on SAP

DC-SAP-intro-sap-ansible-automation

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+# This file originates from the project https://github.com/openSUSE/doc-kit
+# This file can be edited downstream.
+
+## Basics
+MAIN="intro-sap-ansible-automation.asm.xml"
+SRC_DIR="articles"
+IMG_SRC_DIR="images"
+
+## Profiling
+PROFOS="sles4sap"
+PROFCONDITION="16.0"
+#STRUCTID="sles-cockpit"
+#PROFARCH="x86_64;zseries;power;aarch64"
+
+DOCBOOK5_RNG_URI="urn:x-suse:rng:v2:geekodoc-flat"
+
+## stylesheet location
+STYLEROOT="/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/suse2022-ns"
+FALLBACK_STYLEROOT="/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/suse2021-ns"

articles/intro-sap-ansible-automation.asm.xml

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
+<?xml-model href="https://cdn.docbook.org/schema/5.2/rng/assemblyxi.rnc"
+            type="application/relax-ng-compact-syntax"?>
+<!DOCTYPE assembly
+[
+    <!ENTITY % entities SYSTEM "../common/generic-entities.ent">
+    %entities;
+]>
+<!-- refers to legacy doc: https://github.com/SUSE/doc-sle/blob/main/xml/adm_sudo.xml -->
+
+<assembly version="5.2" xml:lang="en"
+          xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+          xmlns:trans="http://docbook.org/ns/transclusion"
+          xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
+          xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
+
+
+          <resources>
+    <resource xml:id="_sap-for-ansible-intro" href="../concepts/sap-for-ansible-intro.xml"/>
+
+   <resource xml:id="_about-install-sap-pattern-ansible" href="../concepts/about-install-sap-pattern-ansible.xml"/>
+    <resource xml:id="_install-sap-playbook-ansible" href="../tasks/install-sap-playbook-ansible.xml"/>
+    <resource xml:id="_sap-ansible-playbook-more-info" href="../glues/ansible-sap-more-info.xml"/>
+        <resource href="../common/legal.xml" xml:id="_legal"/>
+    <resource href="../common/license_gfdl1.2.xml" xml:id="_gfdl"/>
+  </resources>
+  <!-- S T R U C T U R E -->
+  <structure renderas="article" xml:id="intro-sap-ansible" xml:lang="en">
+    <merge>
+      <title>Introduction to Ansible automation for &sles4sap; 16</title>
+      <!-- Create changelog to enable versioning; add most recent entries at the top. -->
+      <revhistory xml:id="rh-intro-sap-automation">
+        <revision><date>2025-10-19</date>
+          <revdescription>
+            <para>Initial version</para>
+          </revdescription>
+        </revision>
+       </revhistory>
+
+       <meta name="maintainer" content="[email protected]" its:translate="no"/>
+
+       <meta name="productname" its:translate="no">
+         <productname os="sles4sap" version="16.0">&sles4sap;</productname>
+         </meta>
+
+       <meta name="architecture" its:translate="no">
+        <phrase>&x86-64;</phrase>
+        <phrase>&power;</phrase>
+        <phrase>&zseries;</phrase>
+        <phrase>&aarch64;</phrase>
+       </meta>
+
+       <meta name="title" its:translate="yes">Introduction to Ansible automation for &sles4sap;</meta>
+       <meta name="description" its:translate="yes">Learn about a set of Ansible collections and playbooks designed specifically for &sles4sap; on &productname; 16.</meta>
+       <meta name="social-descr" its:translate="yes">How to use Ansible automation for SAP environments on &productname; 16 systems. </meta>
+
+       <meta name="category" its:translate="no">
+         <phrase>Administration</phrase>
+       </meta>
+
+       <meta name="task" its:translate="no">
+         <phrase>Authentication</phrase>
+         <phrase>Security</phrase>
+        </meta>
+
+       <meta name="series" its:translate="no">Products &amp; Solutions</meta>
+
+      <!-- Docmanager -->
+      <dm:docmanager xmlns:dm="urn:x-suse:ns:docmanager">
+        <dm:bugtracker>
+          <dm:url>https://bugzilla.suse.com/enter_bug.cgi</dm:url>
+          <dm:component>Documentation</dm:component>
+            <dm:product os="sles4sap">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0</dm:product>
+          <dm:assignee>[email protected]</dm:assignee>
+        </dm:bugtracker>
+        <dm:translation>yes</dm:translation>
+      </dm:docmanager>
+
+      <abstract>
+        <variablelist>
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term>WHAT?</term>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+            Learn about a pwerful set of Ansible collections and playbooks that are designed &sap;.
+            This automation codifies best practices, allowing you to build and maintain your SAP landscapes with speed, reliability and consistency.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term>WHY?</term>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Ansible automation is essential for &sap; environments for organizations to codify and standardize the complex, time-consuming, and high-risk administrative tasks associated with &sap; infrastructure and operations.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term>EFFORT</term>
+            <listitem>
+              <para>
+                It takes you up to an hour to read through this article.
+              </para>
+            </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term>GOAL</term>
+            <listitem>
+              <para>
+                To transform the management of&sap; environments from a complex, error-prone, and time-intensive manual process into a fast, consistent, and fully auditable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) workflow.
+              </para>
+            </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term>REQUIREMENTS</term>
+            <listitem>
+              <itemizedlist>
+                <listitem>
+                  <para>
+                  Understanding of Ansible core and how it works.</para>
+                </listitem>
+                <listitem>
+                <para>
+                 Understanding the architecture of &sap; systems.
+               </para>
+                </listitem>
+                    </itemizedlist>
+            </listitem>
+          </varlistentry>
+        </variablelist>
+      </abstract>
+    </merge>
+    <module resourceref="_sap-for-ansible-intro" renderas="section"/>
+    <module resourceref="_about-install-sap-pattern-ansible" renderas="section"/>
+    <module resourceref="_install-sap-playbook-ansible" renderas="section"/>
+    <module resourceref="_sap-ansible-playbook-more-info" renderas="section"/>
+       <module resourceref="_legal" renderas="section"/>
+    <module resourceref="_gfdl" renderas="appendix"/>
+  </structure>
+</assembly>