Environments constitute the actual platform-as-a-service offering of SAP BTP that allows for the development and administration of business applications. Environments are anchored in SAP BTP on subaccount level.
Each environment comes equipped with specific tools, technologies, and runtimes that you need to build applications. So a multi-environment subaccount (for Kyma, ABAP, and Cloud Foundry environments) is your single address to host a variety of applications and offer diverse development options. One advantage of using different environments in one subaccount is that you only need to manage users, authorizations, and entitlements once per subaccount, and thus grant more flexibility to your developers.
The multi-environment subaccount functionality is not applicable for the Neo environment.
To actually use an environment in a subaccount, you must enable it, which creates an instance of that environment. There are several ways to create environment instances:
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In the SAP BTP cockpit, on the subaccount overview, choose Enable.
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In the SAP BTP cockpit, under Service Marketplace. Here, you get more information, such as the available plans and links to further information.
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Using the btp CLI command
btp create accounts/environment-instance
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