Exercise: Enabling SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery

Create and administer an SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery service.

1. Enter your SAP BTP subaccount. Navigate to the Services tab in the left navigation bar. Go to Service Marketplace.

2. In the search box, enter Continuous Integration & Delivery. If the tile is displayed, select it.

   

   Note

   If the tile does not display, it must be entitled. To achieve this, select Entitlements in the left bar of your subaccount, then on the upper-right side, select Configure Entitlements, then Add Service Plans. A pop-up displays. On the left side of the pop-up, select the Continuous Integration & Delivery entitlement and on the right side select the trial flag. Confirm the pop-up (select Add 1 Service Plan). Navigate back to the Service Marketplace of your subaccount and try again. The tile should now display.

3. Choose Create.

   

4. Accept the default settings and choose Create.

   

   Note

   The default settings can change from time to time, so yours might differ from the screenshot.

5. You can Close the Creation in Progress pop-up.

Assign the CICD role collection to your user.

1. In your SAP BTP subaccount, choose Security → Users.

2. Choose your username.

3. On the right side, choose Assign Role Collections.

4. From the list, select CICD Service Administrator and choose Assign Role Collection.

   Your user is now authorized to use and administer the SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery service.

Configure credentials in SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery.

1. In your SAP BTP subaccount, navigate to Services and then to Instances and Subscriptions.

2. Choose the Go to Application icon located next to the Continuous Integration & Delivery subscription.

   

3. Use your credentials to log in to the application.

4. On the Credentials tab in SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery, choose + (Create Credentials).

   If your GitHub repository is private, configure credentials for it so that the Continuous Integration & Delivery service can connect to it.

   Note

   If your GitHub repository is not private, you can skip this step. In addition, note to use your personal access token (PAT) instead of your GitHub password.

   

5. Enter the following data:

   Field	Value
   Name	github (only lowercase characters permitted)
   Type	Basic Authentication
   Username	Your GitHub username
   Password	Use the personal access token that you created in GitHub in the exercise, Create and Connect a Remote Git-Repository

   

6. Create a second credential for deploying to the SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry environment.

7. Enter the following data:

   Field	Value
   Name	cfdeploy
   Type	Basic Authentication
   Username	your username for the SAP BTP cockpit
   Password	use your password for the SAP BTP cockpit

   

Configure the GitHub repository in SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery.

1. On the Repositories tab in SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery, choose + (Add repository).

   

2. For Name, enter a freely chosen name for your repository, which is unique in your SAP BTP subaccount. In this example, the name of the repository is RiskManagement-Repo.

3. As Clone URL, enter the HTTPS Clone URL of your GitHub repository. Find it by selecting the green Code button in your GitHub repository. Choose the Clipboard icon to copy the URL.

   

4. As Credentials, select github that you created in the previous steps.

5. Leave the default values in the Webhook Event Receiver section. Make sure that Type is set to GitHub.

6. To add the repository to your SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery service, select Add.