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1.1 Which SAP Solution for CI/CD Meets Your Needs?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

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1 SAP Solutions for Continuous Integration
and Delivery

Get an overview of the solutions SAP provides for continuous integration and delivery.

 Note

For links to all SAP solutions for CI/CD, blog posts, presentations, and tutorials, have a look at our
Continuous Integration and Delivery by SAP overview.

Use

At the moment, SAP offers three different solutions that help you apply CI/CD in your software development:

• SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery

SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery is a service on SAP BTP, which lets you configure and run
predefined continuous integration and delivery pipelines that build, test, and deploy your code changes. It
supports the development of SAP Cloud Application Programming Model, SAP Fiori, SAP Cloud Integration
and container-based applications projects.
For more information, see Meet Our New Continuous Integration and Delivery Solution .
• Project "Piper"
Project "Piper" is an open-source project that provides preconfigured Jenkins pipelines, which you can
use in your own Jenkins infrastructure and adapt according to your needs, if necessary. It consists of two
components:
• A shared library , which contains the description of steps, scenarios, and utilities required to use
Jenkins pipelines
• A set of Docker images that can be used to implement best practice processes
• Continuous Integration and Delivery Best Practices Guide
The CI/CD Best Practices Guide provides best practice procedures to implement continuous delivery
pipelines on any CI/CD stack and demonstrates how to apply the principles of CI/CD to SAP-specific
technologies.
For more information, see We’ve Finished Our Renovations: Our New CI/CD Best Practices .

All three solutions differ in their level of flexibility and expertise required for setup and configuration:

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In the following image, click on one of the blue boxes to navigate to the corresponding solution.

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• https://www.project-piper.io/ [https://www.project-piper.io/]
• https://help.sap.com/viewer/3324745951b44b578bd65221d2ff8f9a/Cloud/en-US/
1ae37c7c7ad343589e2bd2fd424c9105.html [https://help.sap.com/viewer/
3324745951b44b578bd65221d2ff8f9a/Cloud/en-US/1ae37c7c7ad343589e2bd2fd424c9105.html]
• https://help.sap.com/viewer/product/CONTINUOUS_DELIVERY/Cloud/en-US [https://help.sap.com/
viewer/product/CONTINUOUS_DELIVERY/Cloud/en-US]

As you don't need to care about the underlying infrastructure, SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery
requires the least expertise in CI/CD. Therefore, however, its flexibility is limited. Project "Piper" Docker images
can be used out-of-the-box. As this offering depends on Jenkins, however, its flexibility is also restricted. The
Continuous Integration and Delivery Best Practices Guide works with any CI/CD stack, but therefore requires
more expertise in CI/CD.

Learn and Get Certified

Depending on your learning goals and level of expertise, you can choose from the following offerings:

• Continuous Integration and Delivery by SAP Learning Journey

Our learning journey is a visual guide that helps you complete the learning path for CI/CD by SAP. It
makes you understand the practices and principles of continuous integration and delivery, provides the
opportunity to gather hands-on experience, and helps you improve your skills in CI/CD.
For more information about Learning Journeys, see Jump-start your Learning.
• Continuous Integration and Delivery Introduction Guide
The CI/CD Introduction Guide provides you with basic knowledge for setting up and implementing
continuous integration and delivery processes. It gives an overview of the concepts and principles of
CI/CD, explains both procedures and their relation, and helps you plan your own CI/CD process.

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1.1 Which SAP Solution for CI/CD Meets Your Needs?

Find your appropriate SAP solution for continuous integration and delivery.

The following table shows which development scenarios are covered by which SAP solutions for CI/CD. Look
for your specific use case to get a link to our appropriate solution.

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In the table, use the search options to quickly find what you are looking for.

CI/CD Scenarios and Matching Offerings by SAP

Continuous
SAP Continuous Integration and
Development Sce­ Integration and Delivery Best
nario Environment Delivery Project "Piper" Practices Guide

Developing SA­ Cloud Foundry See See Build and De­ See Apply CI/CD to
PUI5/SAP Fiori appli­ ploy SAPUI5/SAP Fiori SAP Fiori Development
Neo • SAP Fiori in the
cations on SAP BTP Applications on SAP on SAP BTP.
Cloud Foundry En­
BTP .
vironment
• SAP Fiori in the
Neo Environment

Developing SA­ ABAP - See Build an SAP Fiori See Apply CI/CD to
PUI5/SAP Fiori appli­ Application and Attach SAP Fiori Development
cations on an SAP Fiori It to a Transport Re­ on an SAP Fiori Front-
front-end server quest on an ABAP Sys­ End Server.
tem .

Developing SAP HANA SAP HANA - See Build and De­ See Apply CI/CD to
extended application ploy SAP Fiori Applica­ SAP HANA Extended
services, advanced tions on SAP HANA Application Services,
model applications Extended Application Advanced Model De­
Services, Advanced velopment.
Model .

Developing applica­ Cloud Foundry See SAP Cloud Appli­ See Build and Deploy -
tions with the SAP cation Programming SAP Cloud Application
Cloud Application Pro­ Model. Programming Model
gramming Model Applications .

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 Continuous
SAP Continuous Integration and
Development Sce­ Integration and Delivery Best
nario Environment Delivery Project "Piper" Practices Guide

Developing with SAP Cloud Foundry See See Integrate SAP See Integrate SAP
Cloud Transport Man­ Cloud Transport Man­ Cloud Transport Man­
Neo • SAP Cloud Ap­
agement agement Into Your agement Into Your
plication Program­
CI/CD Pipeline . CI/CD Pipeline.
ming Model
• SAP Fiori in the
Cloud Foundry En­
vironment
• SAP Fiori in the
Neo Environment

Developing with SAP Neo - See Build and De­ See Integrate Change
Solution Manager ploy Hybrid Applica­ Request Management
tions with SAP Solu­ with SAP Solution
tion Manager . Manager into Your
CI/CD Pipeline.

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 Continuous
SAP Continuous Integration and
Development Sce­ Integration and Delivery Best
nario Environment Delivery Project "Piper" Practices Guide

Developing with SAP Cloud Foundry See SAP Integration See project "Piper" li­ -
Integration Suite Suite Artifacts. brary steps

• integrationArti­
factDeploy
• integrationArti­
factDownload
• integrationArti­
factGetMplSta­
tus
• integrationAr­
tifactGetServi­
ceEndpoint
• integrationArtifac­
tResource
• integrationArtifac­
tUnDeploy
• integrationArtifac­
tUpdateConfigu-
ration
• integrationArtifac­
tUpload
• apiProxyUp­
load
• apiProxyDown­
load
• apiKeyValueMap­
Download

See also the blog post

Working with Integra­
tion Suite Piper Com­
mands .

Developing container- Kyma See Container-Based See General Purpose -

Pipeline with build
based applications Applications.
tool docker.

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