Transport MTA UI5 apps with Transport Management Service

[WouterLemaire]

Introduction

One of the main missing services of the SAP Cloud Platform is a service that enables you to transport applications between different subaccounts. Till now, you still need to export and import applications which is fine for demo purpose. In real cloud projects, this is not good enough. But SAP is working on a Transport service in SCP for this. Currently this service is in closed beta phase, Boris will add more information about that in the comment at the end of the blog.

In this blog, I want to share my experience on how we used the “Transport Management Service” to transport a UI5 app from one subaccount to another subaccount.

First, you can find all the documentation of this service here:

https://help.sap.com/viewer/p/TRANSPORT_MANAGEMENT_SERVICE

And this page to get started:

https://help.sap.com/viewer/7f7160ec0d8546c6b3eab72fb5ad6fd8/Cloud/en-US/66fd7283c62f48adb23c56fb48c...

Fabian already created a blog on how to use this service with CPI:

https://blogs.sap.com/2018/04/23/getting-started-with-sap-transport-management-service-beta-for-sap-...

 

Create MTA app

Before starting with configuring the transport service and transporting apps, we need to create an mtar of the UI5 app. Currently the Transport Service only works with MTA applications on NEO environment. The following blog shows how to put a UI5 app in an MTA app and generate an MTAR file:

https://blogs.sap.com/2018/05/18/deploy-mta-app-on-neo-starting-from-the-sap-web-ide/

 

Configure your Cloud Environment

We used the transport service to transport IoT apps. We’ve created the apps in the IoT subaccount and created a second subaccount “IoT Demo” to test the transport service. It’s also possible to transport mta apps between more than two subaccounts. We only used two just for testing.

We need the generated names of the subaccounts for later configuration:

• Adf0781c4


• Aebb764d9

These two accounts are created in the NEO environment.

Configure the Transport Service

The transport service is running on CloudFoundry. This means we need to create destinations from the CloudFoundry environment (where the service is running) to the NEO subaccounts (where the apps are or will run).

In our test scenario, we had to create two destinations. One for each subaccount.



First destination for the subaccount that represents the DEV environment:



And one for production:



The URL in both destinations is always this for EU with another subaccount:

https://slservice.eu1.hana.ondemand.com/slservice/slp/basic/<subaccount>/slp

For example: adf0781c4

https://slservice.eu1.hana.ondemand.com/slservice/slp/basic/ adf0781c4/slp

Configure Transport Routes and Nodes

Start by going to the “Transport Management Service”



Instead of creating everything manually, we used the wizard:



First step in the wizard, select the amount of nodes (two in our case):



Give each node a name, description and enable “Allow Import to node”. After that, you’ll be able to select content type and the destination for each subaccount.

We used “Multi-Target Application” as we’re testing with MTA apps.

Also give name for the route between the two nodes:



The next step will take a few seconds but will be all green when finished.



Last step will show an overview of everything that has been created:



Easy, isn't it?

Start transporting MTA apps

Go to “Transport Nodes” -> Select the development node.



In the “Import queue” select the “Add” button



Select the mtar file and give the transport a description



The transport is now in the list and contains the mtar file:



Select the transport and click on import:



Just click “OK”



It will start loading



The status changes as soon as it’s finished:



The MTAR file is now deployed to the development subaccount. The step of uploading the MTAR directly to the NEO account can now be replaced by the “Transport Management Service”

 

Now, we can switch to de Production node and import the transport for that subaccount. Go to transport routes and select the production node:



Go to the import queue



The transport that was imported in the Development account is now here in the import queue



Select the transport and click on Import



Just click “OK”:



When the transport is imported into the Production subaccount, the status will become “Succeeded”



Finally, you’ll see the MTA applications in the subaccounts of the nodes:



This shows how we’ll be able to use the Transport Management Service. Soon we can all enjoy this service!