Week 1: Introduction

Unit 5: Building Your First Application –

Pushing the App to Cloud Foundry
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SAP Cloud Platform domain model

1 n Region
User Account Home
n

n Global Neo Environment

Environment Account*
1 n
Subaccount Organization

n Subaccount

Neo application
n
Space subscriptions
Cloud Foundry
n Neo applications
applications n

Cloud Foundry
n n Neo services
services

*Note: Global accounts can be two types: trial and enterprise

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Multiple runtimes and languages with SAP Cloud Platform

SAP Cloud Platform is now a polyglot PaaS

‟Polyglot: a person who knows and is able to use several languages”

Dictionary

▪ Multi-language
▪ Enterprise support for selected buildpacks
▪ Cloud Foundry community buildpacks
▪ Bring your own buildpack

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Multiple runtimes and languages with SAP Cloud Platform

With the Cloud Foundry environment, SAP Cloud Platform enables the use of additional
programming languages and frameworks via buildpacks

Java Node.js Python HTML5 <your choice>

▪ Develop, deploy, and ▪ Benefit from multiple ▪ Build and deploy ▪ Develop and run ▪ Bring your own
operate Java Node.js packages your Python HTML5 applications language and
applications available applications runtime of choice
▪ Benefit from multiple
▪ e.g. complex ▪ Develop and run ▪ Selection of Python SAPUI5 code ▪ Choose from
integration projects Node.js applications packages are also templates existing community
in the cloud available buildpacks or
develop your own

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How applications are staged and started

Staging is the process of creating an application package (droplet) that contains all needed
components for the application to run (e.g. runtime, drivers, additional libraries, etc.).

+ staging

buildpack droplet

+ start

droplet rootfs
application

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Multiple runtimes and languages with SAP Cloud Platform buildpacks explained

▪ Buildpacks are responsible for setting up the environment and injecting dependencies for your app
▪ Every buildpack is just a zip file with 3 scripts: detect, compile, and release
▪ The staging phase where buildpacks come into play consists of 3 steps: executing the 3 scripts

1. Detect: Decide which 2. Compile: Create the droplet 3. Release: Create a metadata
buildpack can handle the app for the application file that tells CF Cloud
(if not specified explicitly) Controller how to start the
application

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Application deployment process: $ cf push

UPLOAD STAGE START

➢ upload application ➢ build droplet ➢ start app container

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Start, Restart, and Restage

‘
Start Restart Restage

Download droplet Stop & start with the already Stop, compile new droplet, start
compiled droplet
Start app container Compiles new droplet without
▪ Use start coming with the Refreshes the app app source update
buildpack environment
e.g. configuration change Restage updates the env used
▪ Provide specific start
command for your app by the buildpack

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Bring Your Own Language – System buildpacks with community support

There are a number of system buildpacks (beyond Java, Node.js, Python) available in the Cloud Foundry
environment that enable you to leverage various programming languages and frameworks*

Learn more about system buildpacks*:

▪ PHP: https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/buildpacks/php/index.html
▪ .NET Core: https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/buildpacks/dotnet-core/index.html
▪ Go: https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/buildpacks/go/index.html
▪ Ruby: https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/buildpacks/ruby/index.html
…
▪ Binary: https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/buildpacks/binary/index.html
▪ Staticfile: https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/buildpacks/staticfile/index.html

*There is only community support, SAP does not provide Enterprise Support for these buildpacks
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How to use a custom buildpack

In case you use a language or framework that is not available with Cloud Foundry system buildpacks or you
need to change the configuration or enable additional features of an existing buildpack, you can use a custom
buildpack:

▪ A community or third-party provided buildpack

▪ Customize an existing buildpack
▪ Develop your own buildpack

The custom buildpack is provided as a Git Repository URL in the application push configuration.

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Demo scenario – Simple chat room app

▪ Simple chat room

▪ Node.js & HTML5

https://github.com/SAP/cloud-sample-node-chat/

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Further reading i Additional Material

SAP Cloud Platform Web site

Getting a trial account

Cloud Foundry buildpacks

Staging apps on Cloud Foundry

Deploy apps on Cloud Foundry

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What you’ve learned in this unit

▪ SAP Cloud Platform domain model

▪ Runtimes supported on SAP Cloud Platform
▪ Polyglot apps and BYOL support on SAP Cloud Platform
▪ Pushing, staging, starting apps on SAP Cloud Platform Cloud
Foundry environment
▪ Developing your first Node.js app

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