Reflecting Your Delivery Landscape in Transport Management

Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
  • Describe the process of setting up SAP Cloud Transport Management
  • Describe the necessary steps to reflect your delivery landscape in SAP Cloud Transport Management

Set Up SAP Cloud Transport Management

Note

This lesson is geared mainly towards administrators, but any roles involved could benefit from it.

You discovered the recommended sub-account model for SAP BTP in a previous lesson. It consists of at least three sub-accounts: development, testing, and productive use.

Artifacts created or changed in the development sub-account must be reliably controlled and brought to the test and productive sub-account.

SAP's tool for this purpose is SAP Cloud Transport Management. In this lesson, you will learn how to set it up and reflect on your delivery landscape.

Overview

To reflect your delivery landscape in SAP Cloud Transport Management, you have to perform two significant steps:

  1. Set up SAP Cloud Transport Management. This must be done only once, because all your delivery landscapes can be managed from one central instance of SAP Cloud Transport Management.
  2. Configure your delivery landscape inside your SAP Cloud Transport Management instance. This step must be completed for every transport scenario you wish to implement.

For more information on this topic, please view the video, Reflecting Your Delivery Landscape in Transport Management.

Business Scenario

As a release manager of Rotating Banana, you have used a typical three-sub-account landscape in SAP BTP for your extension projects. The sub-accounts for development, testing, and production have already been set up.

Business Scenario

As an SAP BTP administrator at Rotating Banana, you have decided to run SAP Cloud Transport Management in a separate adminstrative sub-account to allow for strict access control and prevent misuse of for example the deployment destinations. If the developers would like to get read access to SAP Cloud Transport Management to check the results of the transports this can be achieved by assigning them the Cloud Transport Management Viewer role.

Therefore, you entitle the adminstrative sub-account for SAP Cloud Transport Management and subscribe to it. You create three role collections (SAP Cloud Transport Management Administrator with full access, Transport Manager with all transport-related authorizations and a Viewer with display authorizations only) and assign these roles to the respective users. To prepare the planned integration with the SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery service, create a service instance of SAP Cloud Transport Management and a service key.

Details on the Enablement of SAP Cloud Transport Management

The SAP documentation enabling SAP Cloud Transport Management including extensive screenshots. The entry point is Set Up the Environment to Transport Content Archives directly in an Application’.

The individual steps are described here:

The next step is to reflect this landscape in SAP Cloud Transport Management and prepare to connect cTMS to the SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery service.

Reflection of Your Delivery Landscape in SAP Cloud Transport Management

Watch the video below to find out how to configure the delivery landscape.

Business Scenario

As an SAP BTP administrator at Rotating Banana, you must set up the transport scenario 'MTA Deployment on Cloud Foundry'.

For this, you create two destinations pointing to your landscape's target subaccounts (test and production).

In the SAP Cloud Transport Management UI, you create three transport nodes (Dev, Test, Prod) and connect them with two transport routes (Dev to Test, Test to Prod). This creates a simple linear three-node landscape.

To enable integration with the CI&D service, you provide the SAP Cloud Transport Management service key to the CI&D service, which is stored as a credential.

Details on Modeling the Landscape in SAP Cloud Transport Management

The SAP Documentation provides details about modeling your delivery landscape in SAP Cloud Transport Management including extensive screenshots. The entry point can be found here: Configuring the Landscape.

The individual steps are described here:

The documentation Integration in Development and Change Management Processes and with Other Services provides more information about possible integrations and the details of their setup.

Supported Content Types

The integration of SAP Cloud Transport Management with the SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery Service (transporting Multi-Target Applications (MTA)) is only one of many possible transport scenarios. SAP Cloud Transport Management is continuously enabled for further content types. The currently supported content types can be found here in the documentation. The latest additions to this list include SAP Build Apps, SAP Datasphere or SAP Build Process Automation.

Summary

You can now perform the steps necessary to reflect your delivery landscape in SAP Cloud Transport Management.

For this, you learned how to subscribe to SAP Cloud Transport Management and how to build your transport landscape from destinations, transport nodes, and transport routes.

Lastly, you gained insights into the integrating SAP Cloud Transport Management with other applications, such as the SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery service.

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