Getting started with SAP Transport Management Service (beta) for SAP Cloud Platform

Moderator Note: this blog post is outdated and refers to an older beta version that doesn’t exist anymore.

Introducing

I got the chance to be part of the beta program for (thx to Boris Zarske and team) SAP Transport Management Service (TMS) for SAP Cloud Platform. Therefor this is a closed beta, as commented below from Boris there will be a more open beta (link will be posted) and currently it´s planned to release SAP TMS in Q3/2018.

In Short SAP TMS is an additional transport option to the existing one and is running only as an Cloud based solution.:

SAP TMS provides and allows us to transport development artifacts and application content. The tool covers the following

• SaaS and PaaS
• Application-specific content archives
• Multi-Target Applications
• SAP HANA XS classic model Delivery Unit

Currently the SAP TMS supports only the Neo Environment, the future direction will also covers the SAP CF environment.

From the architecture point of view, the TMS is running at the CF environment:

And nothing (mostly) works without a litte config, therefore we want now cover the following steps:

 

So let´s start dude….

 

Enable SAP TMS on SAP CP CF

The first thing what i´ve do is to create a new “Subaccount”:

Afterwards we need to assign the Entitlements to our newly created Subacc.

Now you can enable the SAP TMS subscription in your SAP CP CF subaccount:

Define the Role Collection to get access

For this pls enter the TMS Subscription and define a new role collection:

Assign the application role to the newly create role collection (e.g. SYC_RC):

And configure the trust configuration by adding the user to the role collection, by entering the SAP ID Service:

And assign a user:

Afterwards we are able to enter the SAP TMS application:

If the login is successfully we should see now the SAP TMS application:

Create the REST API access

To get access from the SAP CP Neo Acc. we need to create the API access on the TMS service in our CloudFoundry environment. This can be done via cockpit or my favorite here is simply using the cf cli:

cf login -o SAP_CP_cf-beta-test -s dev

# create a new service instance
cf create-service transport  standard sap-tms

# create the service key
cf create-service-key sap-tms tms-service-key

# display the key
cf service-key sap-tms tms-service-key

Abrufen des Schlüssels tms-service-key für Serviceinstanz tms als fabian...

{
 "uaa": {
  "clientid": "<client ID>",
  "clientsecret": "<client secretY",
  "identityzone": "cf-beta-test",
  "identityzoneid": "36ed660a-ecc0-4778-8b61-b2137a1bb6eb",
  "sburl": "https://internal-xsuaa.authentication.eu10.hana.ondemand.com",
  "tenantid": "36ed660a-ecc0-4778-8b61-b2137a1bb6eb",
  "tenantmode": "dedicated",
  "uaadomain": "authentication.eu10.hana.ondemand.com",
  "url": "https://cf-beta-test.authentication.eu10.hana.ondemand.com",
  "verificationkey": "-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----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-----END PUBLIC KEY-----",
  "xsappname": "<xsapp>"
 },
 "uri": "https://transport-service-app-backend.ts.cfapps.eu10.hana.ondemand.com"
}

 

Create the destination at SAP CP (CF env.)

The last thing which we need to do on SAP CP (CF env.) is to define a new destination which is pinting to the “Solution Lifecycle Management service” from your “Neo Acc”:

In detail u need to configure the following:

For the specification of the url pls check this SAP Help page.

Create the destination at SAP CP (Neo env.)

On the Neo side we need create 3 destinations:

 

The first for our target application which want to use, in our scenario we want to transport SAP CP Integration content. Therefore we need information about CPI:

Details of the different types of available destinations can be be found here.

As u documnted in the SAP Help, for SAP CPI ist required to specify the name of the Destination as “CloudIntegration“.

The last two Destinations which are required now, are the destination to provide us access to the CF env.:

Additional Properties

 

OAuth Destination:

 

Enter SAP TMS

What we 1st need to do is to specify the “source” and the “target” node.

 

The source node

In our simple scenario we´ve only on CPI Tenant therefore we have only one source node:

The target node

And the “target” node, were we can find now a different setup:

 

The transport route

Afterwards the node´s are successfully defined, we can now define our “little” transport route:

Transport and SAP CP Integration Package

Prerequisite

To tell SAP CPI which type of transport we want to use know.

It´s required to config this by entering the “Settings” section of your tenant and select TMS as “Transport Mode”:

#

Transport

Now we switch to the “Design” perspective and select a package.

In de detail view of the package click now on the “transport” link:

Enter a description:

And yes looks it works:

To validate that this really work´s and based on the fact that iám using here only a singel CPI tenant i want now to delete the package:

Enter TMS

If we go back to SAP TMS and selecting our Transport node we can now see our transport.

Select the entry and click import:

 

And here we go…….we can now find our content/package in the SAP CPI Tenant:

 

Conclusion

From my perspective it´s and important thing that we got asap (Q2?) SAP TMS to handle our artifacts.

In many projects it was really bad experience, first to export manually the CPI content and to reimport this to another tenant.

A cool thing which can be helpful as well can be a scheduled import option to avoid the manual process for the import.

But anyway i think SAP TMS is the right direction.

 

cheers,

Fabian

 

---

Helpful Links

SAP TMS SAP Help Link

MTA for the Neo Environment SAP Help

Configuring the Access to the Solutions Lifecycle Management Service