Best Practise for MTAR-enabling existing apps?

[alejiandro_sensejl]

Dear Experts,

we have developed 50+ custom Fiori apps which currently run on on-prem Fiori Frontend Server. We want to expose them to the internet via Fiori Portal Service in Cloud Foundry Environment.

We already did this for 3 apps as proof of concept by creating MTAR for them.

For the first 3 apps we manually created MTAR and copied source code to MTAR project in order to build mta file.The apps are currently in a Git Repo and will also still need to run in FES for internal users.

The next stage will be 11 more apps and also MTAR for converted apps need to be updated for every change in "original" app.

Is there any best practise for this? Unfortunately MTAR project does not run on Fiori Frontend server, so source code is duplicated....

Thank you for your advice!

Cheers,
Alej

[gregorw]

I thinks it's now a good time for you to setup a CI / CD process to do the MTAR creation and the deployment to the FES automatically.

[alejiandro_sensejl]

Hi gregorw , I have tried to look up information about CI / CD since it was new to me and I think I got a rough understanding over the weekend.

Unfortunately I was not able to find tooling for MTAR. We are using built-in "Build" function in WebIDE for creating MTAR files. Can you give a hint on how to automate that via GitLab pipeline?

Thank you!

Best Regards,
Alej

[gregorw]

Hi Alej,

please use the comment function when you want to comment.

Checkout Cloud MTA Build Tool (MBT) for the command line based tool to create MTA's. I hope you came across Continuous Integration (CI) Best Practices with SAP – Introduction and Navigator. But currently this documentation is moving to Apply CI/CD to SAP Fiori Development on an SAP Fiori Front-End Server.

Best regards
Gregor