So next thing is to install Docker Desktop for Mac. It will be a good idea to read through these instructions a couple of times, to save weeping and gnashing of teeth later on, so I recommend doing that now instead of just quickly skimming those and jumping in like I did at first, learning by getting it wrong 🤣. (For convenience I also printed those instructions to a PDF file on local machine, easier for referring to later). Then you can access the Setup Instructions.

If you don’t already have an account then sign up, and then login. To access the instructions and to download the docker image, you need an account with Docker Hub. Installing and running the ABAP Platform Dev Edition on Docker. Also note that I don’t run a Helpdesk, so these notes are just that, some notes I took, you need to use your own debug skills and Internet search skills if you get stuck. Note that although using this ABAP Platform SDK will still be good for practicing Abap, there is less Basis and Linux competence needed than when using the NetWeaver Dev Edition with ASE database. I do have an old Linux (openSUSE) server in the sauna outhouse, maybe one day I will get around to a How To version of this blog for Linux, although on the other hand people who are using Linux laptops are often proud of their nerdiness levels and would prefer to work out by themselves how to do this ABAP Platform SDK installation. I don’t have any Windows laptops, and anyway there are already blogs about running the ABAP Platform SDK on Windows, see for example this one:

Then in 2021, SAP complemented the NetWeaver Dev Edition by releasing the ABAP Platform 1909 Developer Edition (also sometimes referred to as ABAP Platform SDK), which comes with a HANA database, and is delivered as an image on Docker Hub.įor a few months I thought “well, there is the requirement to give the Docker container 16GB of RAM, but my home laptop only has 16GB RAM in total, and it needs some RAM for itself to keep running, so it isn’t going to be possible to try this new stuff out.” Then a few days ago I thought “maybe I should just try and run this Docker-based system on, say, 14GB RAM, and see what happens.” … and … it works! So, this blog describes how to run ABAP Platform 1909 Developer Edition on Docker on a 16GB RAM MacBook. For many years, if you wanted to practice your Abap skills and/or your Basis installation skills on a laptop, the main free option SAP has offered is the SAP AS NetWeaver Developer Edition, which comes with an ASE database.

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