SAP released the SAP ABAP Platform 1909 as Developer Edition in February 2021 and provides the ABAP Platform on SAP HANA 2.0 as a Docker image. This blog post explains how you install the SAP ABAP Platform 1909, Developer Edition, on a Ubuntu VirtualBox guest machine and access it from another one. The second Ubuntu VirtualBox guest machine contains Eclipse and the SAP GUI for Java.
![Ubuntu 20.04: "SAP ABAP Platform 1909" Docker container is starting](https://i0.wp.com/blog.surges.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/sap_abap_1909_developer_edition_docker.png?resize=525%2C217&ssl=1)