SAP's strategy for continuous integration and delivery on the Business Technology Platform (BTP) is centered around two key components. SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery is the fully managed service offered on SAP BTP that allows developers to configure and run CI/CD pipelines for their applications. This service is built upon Project "Piper", an open-source project from SAP that provides a shared library of best-practice pipeline steps and templates. Together, the managed service and the underlying Project "Piper" library form SAP's official offering for CI/CD within the BTP ecosystem.

A. CruiseControl: This is an early, open-source continuous integration tool and is not a specific service provided or managed by SAP on the BTP platform.

D. Jenkins: This is a widely used open-source automation server for CI/CD. While it can be used with Project "Piper" and can be self-hosted on SAP BTP (e.g., in the Kyma environment), it is not a native, managed SAP BTP service itself.

1. SAP Help Portal

SAP Business Technology Platform

SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery: "SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery lets you configure and run predefined continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines that build

test

and deploy your code changes. It's based on the open-source project 'Piper' and covers the complete lifecycle of your application." (Source: SAP Help Portal

What Is SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery

Document Version: 2024-05-13).

2. SAP Help Portal

SAP Business Technology Platform

Project "Piper": "Project "Piper" is an open-source project that provides preconfigured Jenkins pipelines and libraries for building continuous delivery pipelines. You can use it to build

test

and deploy applications for various environments

including SAP BTP... SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery uses Project "Piper" to provide CI/CD capabilities as a service." (Source: SAP Help Portal

Project "Piper"

Document Version: 2024-05-13).

3. SAP Discovery Center

Service: SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery: Under the "Features" section

it explicitly lists: "Leverage the open-source Project 'Piper' for pipeline configuration." This confirms that the service and the project are the two core components of SAP's offering. (Source: SAP Discovery Center

service details for SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery

accessed May 2024).