Deployment

Without the DevOps-style development approach, projects must be deployed manually. Before the deployment can be started, a build of the latest project version must be created. In the process of this build, SAP Web IDE creates a multi-target application (MTA) archive. This .mtar file can be found in the mtar_archives folder which is automatically created after the project build was finished. Afterward, this .mtar archive can then be deployed to the SAP HANA database via XSA.

In contrast to the manual deployment process shown previously, utilizing the DevOps-style development process enables a much more automated and thus agile deployment. After the latest version of the project is released to the Git release branch, the CI/CD tool pulls the changes and executes a deployment via XSA. In this scenario the CI/CD tool basically replaces the developer and undertakes the necessary steps to deploy the project via XSA. Depending on the settings of the CI/CD tool, this can happen on a time schedule (e.g. every day) or based on a trigger (e.g. as soon as a new release is published).