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How to run SAP Fiori Front-End Server (OpenUI5) on GCP in 20 mins

Wednesday, June 20, 2018

By Tony Lusk, Customer EngineerBimodalGoogle Cloud Platform Set up your GCP account:GCP free trialhttps://cloud.google.com/free/ https://console.cloud.google.comGO TO THE MANAGE RESOURCES PAGEbilling is enabled Setting up SAP OpenUI5 in GCP 1. Create a compute instance (virtual machine):

Click ‘Create instance’

Give it the coolest name you can think of

Select the zone closest to where you are located

Under ‘Machine Type’, choose “micro (1 shared CPU)”. Watch the cost per month drop like a stone!

Under ‘Firewall’, check ‘Allow HTTP traffic’

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2. Set up OpenUI5 on the new image:Fiori Front-End Serversudo apt-get update curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash - sudo apt-get install -y nodejssudo apt-get install unzipmkdir saptest cd saptesthttps://openui5.org/download.htmlwget https://www.google.com/url?q=https://openui5.hana.ondemand.com/downloads/openui5-sdk-1.54.6.zip&sa=D&source=hangouts&ust=1529597279793000&usg=AFQjCNHiQIJnKJVJyacNwVjl_6dogj-ejQunzip openui5-sdk-1.54.5.zipcurl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/htammen/static_server/master/static_server.jscurl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/htammen/static_server/master/package.jsonhttps://github.com/htammen/static_serverpwd ln -s /home/<me>/saptest/resources resourcesnpm installnode static_server.js

Name:	allow-nodeserver
Network:	default
Priority	1000
Direction	Ingress
Action on Match	Allow
Targets	All instances on network
Source filter	IP ranges
Source IP ranges	0.0.0.0/0
Specified Protocols and ports	tcp:8888

Now, clickhttp://<External IP>:8888/index.html 3. Explore the OpenUI5 demo appshttp://<External IP>:8888/test-resources/sap/m/demokit/cart/webapp/index.htmlPro-TipoDatahere References and other links https://blogs.sap.com/2015/09/25/running-ui5-apps-on-local-nodejs-server/Some other good links to check out: https://openui5.org/getstarted.htmlhttps://blogs.sap.com/2017/03/13/how-to-consume-an-odata-service-with-openui5-sapui5/https://blogs.sap.com/2015/07/15/sapui5-vs-fiori/https://blogs.sap.com/2015/05/11/s4-hana-delivers-the-netweaver-vision-of-a-bimodal-it/