Accessing a "Secret Text" credential from the build scripts of a CAP Project on the CI/CD service

[carlonnheim]

Hi,

The SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery service supports the creation of a "Secret Text" credential in the configuration of jobs. But it is not clear from documentation how to access those keys in the build of a CAP project.

The particular use case is that we have a dependency to private npm packages in the project. I hence need to feed the projects .npmrc file with an access token (which I of course cannot check into the repo). We have tried dumping the environment variables etc. in the build but cannot find the "Secret Text" we have maintained anywhere.

Can we get some clarity on this please?

Thanks!

//Carl

[gregorw]

Please check if there is also a tag for the CI/CD service.

CC: boris.zarske christoph.szymanski

[krzys]

Hi Carl,

unfortunately, what you would like to achieve is not yet possible. You're not the only one, who needs to access a private package repository during the build. Good news: It's part of our ongoing roadmap discussion. I can't give a specific date, but this feature will find it's way to the SAP Road Map Explorer in the near future.

Christoph

[KarelVerbanck]

Hi @krzys ,

 We have the same requirement in our project.

Any updates on this? 

Thx in advance for the feedback.

kr,
Karel

[krzys]

Good news everyone: This is possible. the feature has been implemented.

Here's the documentation:

https://help.sap.com/docs/continuous-integration-and-delivery/sap-continuous-integration-and-deliver...

And here's a blog explaining an example implementation:

https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/we-made-our-ci-cd-pipelines-more-flexible/ba-p/...

Christoph