Understanding Kyma

If you have some applications that you’d like to extend in a cloud-native way, with the flexibility to use different technologies that can be scaled independently, or use event-based architecture and serverless functions, Kyma could be of interest to you.

So, what is Kyma?

Kyma is an open-source project designed natively on Kubernetes for extending applications using serverless computing and microservices architecture. Based on many years of experience in extending and customizing different SAP applications, Kyma was donated by SAP as an open-source project in 2018, with a mission statement to enable a flexible way of extending applications and with all the necessary tools to build cloud-native enterprise applications. Technically, Kyma picked the best projects from the growing CNCF community and glued them together to offer an integrated and simplified experience, equipped with the following out-of-the-box capabilities:

• Connecting any existing...