Connect SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery with Your Corporate Git

Enable SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery, assign yourself the administrator role for it, and access the service.

1. In your subaccount in the SAP BTP cockpit, choose

   
   Services → Service Marketplace.

2. In the Extension Suite – Development Efficiency category, choose Continuous Integration & Delivery.

3. In the detail view of SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery, choose Create.

4. In the New Instance or Subscription pop-up, select the following values from the drop-down lists:

   Parameter	Value
   Service	Continuous Integration & Delivery
   Plan	Depending on whether you use a trial account or an enterprise account, either choose trial – Subscription (trial) or default - Subscription (enterprise)

5. Choose Create.

6. From the navigation pane, choose

   
   Security → Users.

   If you use an enterprise account, you need to be a User & Role Administrator of your subaccount to view the

   

   Security section. See Managing Subaccounts Using the Cockpit.

7. Choose the name of your user.

8. From the Role Collections section, choose Assign Role Collection.

9. From the dropdown list, select CICD Service Administrator and confirm your choice with Assign Role Collection.

10. Navigate back to your subaccount overview and from the navigation pane, choose Service Marketplace.

11. In the Extension Suite – Development Efficiency category, choose Continuous Integration & Delivery.

12. Choose

    
    (Actions) → Go to Application.

Add your SAP BTP subaccount to the SAP Cloud Connector.

1. In the SAP Cloud Connector, choose

   
   Connector → Add Subaccount.

   If you haven’t added a subaccount to the Cloud Connector yet, the procedure is slightly different. In this case, you start at

   

   Define Subaccount and fill in the First Subaccount form. The required values, however, are the same.

2. In the Add Subaccount pop-up, enter the following information:

   You can find all information about your subaccount in your subaccount overview in the SAP BTP cockpit.

   Parameter	Value
   Region	Enter the region in which your subaccount resides. To find the correct region, compare your API endpoint with Regions and Hosts Available for the Cloud Foundry Environment.
   Subaccount	Enter the ID of your subaccount.
   Display Name	Freely choose a name for your subaccount.
   Subaccount User	Enter the e-mail address that relates to your subaccount.
   Password	Enter the password for your subaccount.
   Location ID	Freely choose a location ID for your subaccount. You’ll need this ID for the connection with SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery.
   Description	Optionally, enter a description for your subaccount.

   

3. Choose Save.

In the SAP Connectivity service, add a system mapping and a resource.

1. From the navigation pane in the SAP Connectivity service, choose the display name of your subaccount → Cloud To On-Premise.

2. To map a new system, choose + (Add).

3. In the Add System Mapping pop-up, select Non-SAP System as Back-end Type and choose Next.

4. From the drop-down list, select the protocol of your on-premise Git server, and choose Next.

5. Enter your internal host and port, and choose Next.

6. For Virtual Host, enter my-git, and for Virtual Port, enter 1080.

   Thereby, you’ll create a virtual host that can be reached through http://my-git:1080. The virtual host is also needed to configure CI/CD jobs in SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery.

   Even though the virtual host uses HTTP, the connection for the actual data transfer between the cloud connector and SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery is encrypted (HTTPS).

7. Choose Next.

8. As Principal Type, select None, and choose Next.

9. For Host In Request Header, select Use Virtual Host, and choose Next.

10. Optionally, enter a description and choose Next.

11. In the summary, select Check Internal Host, and choose Finish.

    

12. Make sure that your new mapping is selected, and in the Resources Of my-git:1080 area, choose + (Add).

13. In the Add Resource pop-up, enter the path to your repository, for example user/repository out of http://my-corporate-git/user/repository.

14. Select Active and Path And All Sub-Paths, and choose Save.

    

In SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery, configure credentials for your cloud connector and add your Git repository.

1. In SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery, go to the Credentials tab and choose + (Create credentials).

2. In the Create Credentials pop-up, enter the following values:

   Parameter	Value
   Name	Freely choose a unique name for your credential. Only use lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens, and a maximum of 253 characters.
   Description	Enter a meaningful description for your credential.
   Type	From the drop-down list, choose Cloud Connector.
   Location ID	Enter the location ID of your cloud connector. You can find it in the SAP BTP cockpit under Connectivity → Cloud Connectors.

3. Choose Create.

4. Switch to the Repositories tab and choose + (Add repository).

5. In the Add Repository pop-up, enter the following values:

   Parameter	Value
   Name	Freely choose a unique name for your repository. We recommend using a name that refers to the actual repository in your source code management system.
   Clone URL	Enter a composition of the virtual host you’ve created in step 3.6 and the path of the resource you’ve created in step 3.13, for example http://my-git:1080/user/repository. Please make sure that you use the virtual host instead of the real host name and port of your on-premise system.
   Credentials	As your repository isn’t private, leave this field empty.
   Cloud Connector	From the drop-down list, choose your Cloud Connector credential.

6. If you want to receive events from your source code management system, you need to add a webhook event receiver to your repository and configure a webhook in Git. Depending on the type of Git you use, this process differs.

   For how to add a webhook event receiver and a webhook, see Add a repository and Creating Webhooks.

   You can only establish webhooks between SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery and GitHub or Bitbucket Server repositories.

   If you don’t want to add a webhook event receiver and a webhook, choose Remove.

7. Choose Add.

Configure and run a basic job for SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery.

1. In SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery, go to the Jobs tab and choose + (Create job).

2. In the General Information section of the Create Job pane, enter the following values:

   Parameter	Value
   Job Name	Freely choose a unique name for your job. We recommend using a name that contains both your Git project name and branch.
   Repository	From the drop-down list, choose your repository.
   Branch	Enter the branch of your repository for which you want to configure your CI/CD job.
   Pipeline	From the drop-down list, choose SAP Fiori in the Cloud Foundry environment.
   Version	If you create a new job, the latest version is selected by default.
   State	To enable your job, choose ON.

3. In the Build Retention section, enter the following values:

   Parameter	Value
   Keep logs for	Enter the time after which your builds are automatically deleted.
   Keep maximum	Enter the maximum number of builds you want to keep. If your number of builds exceeds this maximum, the oldest ones are deleted automatically.

4. In the Stages section, choose Job Editor as Configuration Mode.

5. For the Build stage, enter a name for your application.

6. Switch all other stages off and choose OK.

   As this tutorial focuses on the connection between SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery and your corporate Git repository, we’ve decided to configure only a very basic CI/CD pipeline in it. For how to configure more elaborate ones, see Supported Pipelines.

7. To trigger your CI/CD pipeline, choose

   
   (Trigger build).

   As a result, a new build tile appears in the Builds section of your job. If you choose it, the Build Stages view opens and you can watch the individual stages of your build run through.