Deploying Your First Application

Clone and open the sample application.

1. Clone the sample application from GitHub

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   git clone https://github.com/SAP-samples/cloud-foundry-runtime-learning-journey

2. Open the cloned project in your preferred IDE.

Deploy the application using native Cloud Foundry deployment.

1. Build the project.

   This reference application already comes with all necessary files for the deployment. However, you have to build the application for production first:

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   cds build --production

   The --production parameter ensures that the cloud deployment-related artifacts are created by cds build.

2. Log in to your Cloud Foundry instance and target an organization and space.

   Use the following command to log in to your Cloud Foundry instance:

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   cf login

   Provide the API endpoint, which you can find in the SAP BTP cockpit, and your credentials. Once authenticated, target an organization and space by choosing the respective values from the list.

   Alternatively, you can also use the following command to target an organization and space:

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   cf target -o <organization> -s <space>

3. Push the application to Cloud Foundry.

   Use the following command to deploy the application to Cloud Foundry

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   cf push

   Read more about the deployment via cf-push in the official CAP documentation.

4. Access the application.

   In your Terminal, you'll see the URL of the deployed application. Open the URL in your browser to access the application. Alternatively, you can also navigate into your application that's now deployed inside your Cloud Foundry space on the SAP BTP cockpit and access the application from there.

Deploy the application using multitarget application (MTA) deployment.

1. Build the project.

   This reference application already comes with all necessary files for the deployment. However, you have to build the application for production first:

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   mbt build -t gen --mtar mta.tar

   This will create a mta.tar file in the gen folder. This file contains the deployment artifacts for the MTA deployment.

2. Deploy the application.

   Use the following command to deploy the application to Cloud Foundry:

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   cf deploy gen/mta.tar

   Wait until the process is finished. You can check the status of the deployment of the deployed application in the terminal. Once the deployment is finished, you should see something like this:

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   […] Application "hello-cloud-foundry-srv" started and available at "[org]-[space]-hello-cloud-foundry-srv.landscape-domain.com" […]