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Hands-on Video Tutorials for Developing Multitenant Business Applications
MAJOR UPDATE September 2020: The entire video tutorial series has been revised and brought up to date. It now includes an example of “schema separation” and several other topics that were not in the original series such as dependencies for reuse services, creating routes during subscription via the CF API, and using a custom domain. Click here to watch the new series.
Hi,
As a partner or application provider, you can develop and run multitenant business applications in SAP Cloud Platform and share them with multiple consumers (or tenants) simultaneously. Each consumer accesses the application through a dedicated URL that identifies their tenant. This allows you to separate data securely for each tenant whilst optimizing resources by sharing them across tenants. It also allows you to update applications for all tenants efficiently in a single step.
You can find out more in the following blogs:
- Multitenancy Architecture on SAP Cloud Platform, Cloud Foundry environment
- Using SaaS Provisioning Service to develop Multitenant application on SAP Cloud Platform, Cloud Foundry Environment
But have you tried this approach “hands-on” and did you know it’s available to test using the free trial?
We’ve just published a new tutorial series covering Multitenant Business Applications in SAP Cloud Platform which you can access here: Multitenant Business Applications in SAP Cloud Platform Playlist
Tutorials cover all aspects of creating and managing multitenant business applications in SAP Cloud Platform including developing, deploying and registering multitenant business applications, consumer/tenant on-boarding and off-boarding, the RESTful API, the Command Line Interface (CLI), database persistence, as well as uninstallation.
So whether you’ve already got access and want to get going or you’re simply interested in seeing exactly how to get started these videos will be of use.
You can access the tutorials directly as follows:
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- Getting Started
- Develop and Deploy App
- Provision App
- On-boarding / subscribe
- Off-boarding / unsubscribe
- Using the RESTful API
- Using the CLI instead of Cockpit
- Uninstall
- Authorizations
- Database Persistence
- Discriminator Column – Develop
- Discriminator Column – Secure
- Discriminator Column – Adapt and Deploy
- Discriminator Column – Register App
- Discriminator Column – Onboarding
- Discriminator Column – Offboarding
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The example applications used in the video tutorials are posted to GitHub: MTApp and bookshop-js.
Kudos and special thanks to Sandeep who helped us out enormously in getting up to speed on this topic!
If you’re new to SAP Cloud Platform itself then you might also want to check out our onboarding video tutorial series which should hopefully get you up to speed pretty quickly.
Good luck in creating your own multitenant business applications and let us know your feedback in the comments section below!
Philip
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UPDATE 26APR19: Added link to new tutorial video that covers application authorizations.
Authorizations
Cool stuff!
UPDATE 23MAY19: Added 6 new tutorial videos covering database persistence via the discriminator column approach in detail.
Andrew Lunde has just posted this blog documenting a custom approach to database persistence based on the schema separation method and it's a great read!
Hi Philip MUGGLESTONE,
Thanks for this post and thanks to Andrew Lunde for the wonderful blogpost. It was a great read.
Could you please share if we can expect a new video on this very topic of schema separation showing the recommended way to implement multi-tenancy at database persistence level by SAP HANA Academy?
Thanks,
Ashish
Hi Ashish,
Thanks for watching and reading and of course your question.
Yes we do plan to publish videos to cover schema separation once SAP's recommended approach has been formally documented.
Thanks,
Philip
Thanks Philip. Any tentative timeline if you are aware?
Eagerly looking forward to the documentation and your videos, helpful as always!
Hi Ashish,
The entire video tutorial series has been revised and brought up to date. It now includes an example of "schema separation" and several other topics that were not in the original series such as dependencies for reuse services, creating routes during subscription via the CF API, and using a custom domain. Click here to watch the new series.
Thanks,
Philip
waiting for the schema separation persistence approach
Hi Satish,
The entire video tutorial series has been revised and brought up to date. It now includes an example of "schema separation" and several other topics that were not in the original series such as dependencies for reuse services, creating routes during subscription via the CF API, and using a custom domain. Click here to watch the new series.
Thanks,
Philip
Thanks for sharing!
Is there meanwhile a preliminary timeline for the records on how the separation of DB schema works or is it not anymore a recommended approach?
Best I can do is refer you to the published roadmaps for SAP Cloud Platform available here. Thanks. Philip
Hi Fouad,
The entire video tutorial series has been revised and brought up to date. It now includes an example of "schema separation" and several other topics that were not in the original series such as dependencies for reuse services, creating routes during subscription via the CF API, and using a custom domain. Click here to watch the new series.
Thanks,
Philip
Hi Philip, your videos through the SAP Hana Academy are very helpful. We are trying to migrate our SAPUI5 applications from WebIDE to BAS. We managed to get source codes from our GitHub into BAS, and able to build applications based on the mta.yaml file, then deploy to cloud foundry app launch site. However, we have trouble to run the applications locally. Our project has multiple modules including a commonly shared library module. All modules except the common one are runnable in Cloud Foundry Fiori launchpad. Each application may need to consume multiple SAP Hana on-promise system ODATA services and other external restful services. Local run failed to consume those services. When I setup a simple project with just one destination service and following your video to create a local xsuaa service, then it worked fine in local run. Can you give us suggestions how to make the local run in BAS work for multiple modules and destination services? Thanks a lot.
Hi Gordon,
Thanks for the feedback and your question. Great timing because only yesterday we published a 3-part tutorial showing an optimized approach to "local" development of MTAs which may help in your scenario:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
The principle is to deploy the full MTA first to ensure all the modules & services are up and running.
Then for each module that you'd like to run "locally" (the tutorials do this on a workstation using VS Code but BAS should work just fine too) use the cf default-env <APP> command to create a local default-env.json file containing config for all the dependencies (services) and intra-module "destinations".
The default-env.json is read when you run the module "locally". That's automatic with @sap/approuter and @sap/hdi-deploy. With @sap/xsenv you need to make sure you use xsenv.loadEnv().
Thanks,
Philip
MAJOR UPDATE September 2020: The entire video tutorial series has been revised and brought up to date. It now includes an example of "schema separation" and several other topics that were not in the original series such as dependencies for reuse services, creating routes during subscription via the CF API, and using a custom domain. Click here to watch the new series.
Thanks Philip . Any reference to do the same with java backend instead of node js ?
Hi Anil,
Thanks for asking but no explicit plans to cover Java at this time.
Thanks.