When building CI/CD pipelines, developers are responsible for managing the credentials used by these pipelines for authentication to external systems. This traditionally requires developers to take care of the lifecycle of the credentials, including secure storage and regular rotation of the credentials, which comes with repeated efforts and might be error-prone.
This blog post demonstrates how to authenticate to the SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry environment from a GitHub Actions workflow using GitHub-issued short-lived JSON Web Tokens (JWTs), thereby eliminating the need for manual secret management and enabling secure, efficient CI/CD workflows. In particular, it provides a step-by-step guide to configuring the SAP Cloud Identity Services and the SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry environment, along with a practical example showing how to deploy an application to the Cloud Foundry environment using a GitHub Actions workflow.
While the blog post gives an example in the context of GitHub and GitHub Actions, the concepts can be applied to other environments providing environment-issued JWTs to their workloads or pipelines as well.
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​ When building CI/CD pipelines, developers are responsible for managing the credentials used by these pipelines for authentication to external systems. This traditionally requires developers to take care of the lifecycle of the credentials, including secure storage and regular rotation of the credentials, which comes with repeated efforts and might be error-prone.This blog post demonstrates how to authenticate to the SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry environment from a GitHub Actions workflow using GitHub-issued short-lived JSON Web Tokens (JWTs), thereby eliminating the need for manual secret management and enabling secure, efficient CI/CD workflows. In particular, it provides a step-by-step guide to configuring the SAP Cloud Identity Services and the SAP BTP, Cloud Foundry environment, along with a practical example showing how to deploy an application to the Cloud Foundry environment using a GitHub Actions workflow.While the blog post gives an example in the context of GitHub and GitHub Actions, the concepts can be applied to other environments providing environment-issued JWTs to their workloads or pipelines as well.   Read More Technology Blog Posts by SAP articlesÂ
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