community.sap_infrastructure Ansible Collection

Description

This Ansible Collection provides a set of Ansible Roles designed to automate various infrastructure-related tasks for SAP systems. It focuses on creating and configuring the necessary resources on different infrastructure platforms, including cloud hyperscalers and hypervisors.

These roles are typically used as a foundational step in end-to-end automation workflows, often in conjunction with other Ansible Collections that handle higher-level configurations, such as SAP application deployments.

The included roles cover a range of tasks, such as:

• Provisioning Virtual Machines on target infrastructure platforms, using Ansible or Terraform.
  • This also includes provisioning of High Availability resources (Routing, Load Balancers, etc.), where applicable.
• Assigning temporary Virtual IP Addresses for application installation, before they are managed by a cluster.
• Pre-configuring hypervisor nodes for hosting virtual machines for SAP systems.
• Pre-configuring virtual machines (Work in Progress).
• Verifying provisioned virtual machines (Work in Progress).

Requirements

Please read the detailed documentation for each Ansible Role to understand their specific requirements.

Always follow official Ansible Documentation for compatibility matrix between Control and Managed nodes.

Control Nodes

Supported Operating systems:

• Any operating system with required Python and Ansible versions.

Component versions:

Component	Version
Python	3.11 or higher
ansible-core	2.16 or higher

NOTE: We recommend using the latest version of components.
Each minor version of ansible-core can bring Security fixes (CVE) that can affect functionality. Examples:

• CVE-2023-5764 changed assert functionality in 2.14.12, 2.15.8 and 2.16.1.
• CVE-2024-11079 changed hostvars functionality in 2.16.14, 2.17.7 and 2.18.1.

Managed Nodes

Supported Operating systems:

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications (SLE4SAP): 15 SP5-SP7 and 16
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions (RHEL4SAP): 8.x, 9.x and 10.x

NOTE: Operating system needs to have access to required package repositories either directly or via a subscription registration.

Component versions:

Component	Version
Python	3.6 or higher

Installation Instructions

Installation

Install this collection with Ansible Galaxy command:

ansible-galaxy collection install community.sap_infrastructure

Optionally you can include collection in requirements.yml file and include it together with other collections using: ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml.
NOTE: This is not recommended for this collection, because you will need only specific subset of collections for your chosen Infrastructure Platform.

Requirements file need to be maintained in following format:

collections:
  - name: community.sap_infrastructure

Upgrade

Installed Ansible Collection will not be upgraded automatically when Ansible package is upgraded.

To upgrade the collection to the latest available version, run the following command:

ansible-galaxy collection install community.sap_infrastructure --upgrade

You can also install a specific version of the collection if you encounter issues with the latest version. Please report such issues in the affected Role repository. For example, to install version 1.1.0:

ansible-galaxy collection install community.sap_infrastructure:==1.1.0

See Installing collections for more details on installation methods.

Ansible Roles

All included roles can be executed independently or as part of ansible.playbooks_for_sap playbooks.

Name	Summary
sap_hypervisor_node_preconfigureBeta	Vendor-specific configuration preparation tasks for Hypervisor nodes hosting Virtual Machines running SAP Systems
sap_vm_preconfigureWIP	Vendor-specific configuration preparation tasks for Virtual Machines running SAP Systems
sap_vm_provision	Provision Virtual Machines to different Infrastructure Platforms; with optional Ansible to Terraform to provision minimal landing zone.
sap_vm_temp_vip	Temporary Virtual IP (VIP) assigned to OS Network Interface prior to Linux Pacemaker ownership
sap_vm_verify WIP	Verification of Virtual Machine state and readiness to perform SAP Software installation

Testing

This Ansible Collection has been tested across different operating systems, SAP products, and scenarios.

Prior to each release, basic scenarios are executed to confirm functionality is working as expected, including SAP S/4HANA installation.

NOTE: It is not possible for the project maintainers to test every combination of Infrastructure Platform, Operating System and SAP Software for every release.

Contributing

For information on how to contribute, please see our contribution guidelines.

Contributors

You can find list of Contributors at /docs/contributors.

Support

You can report any issues using GitHub Issues.

Release Notes and Roadmap

The release notes for this collection can be found in the CHANGELOG file.

Further Information

Variable Precedence Rules

Please follow Ansible Precedence guidelines on how to pass variables when using this collection.

License

Apache 2.0