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80 · Go-Live Checklist

Work through the complete pre-launch checklist, run smoke tests, hand over to operations, and monitor the first 24 hours.

Episode 80 — Go-Live Checklist

What you'll learn

Why this matters

You have learned everything in this course — CAP foundations, data modeling, service development, HANA persistence, authentication, BTP service integrations, and deployment. This final episode brings it all together. A go-live checklist is not bureaucracy — it is the professional habit that prevents you from shipping something that breaks immediately and keeps your production environment stable after launch.

Pre-go-live checklist

Infrastructure

Code & configuration

Security

Observability

CI/CD

Performance

Smoke test suite

Run these immediately after deploying to production:

# Health check
curl -s https://my-app.cfapps.eu10.hana.ondemand.com/health
# Expected: {"status":"UP","timestamp":"..."}

# XSUAA token acquisition (verify XSUAA is healthy)
curl -X POST "https://my-subaccount.authentication.eu10.hana.ondemand.com/oauth/token" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" \
  -d "grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=...&client_secret=..."
# Expected: {"access_token":"...","token_type":"Bearer"}

# OData metadata (verify CAP service is up and schema is correct)
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" \
  https://my-app.cfapps.eu10.hana.ondemand.com/api/odata/v4/MyService/$metadata
# Expected: XML metadata document

# List endpoint (verify DB connection)
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" \
  "https://my-app.cfapps.eu10.hana.ondemand.com/api/odata/v4/MyService/Entities?\$top=1"
# Expected: {"value":[...]}

Day-2 operations handover

Hand over to operations:

Runbook topics to document:
1. How to check app health (cf app, /health URL)
2. How to tail logs (cf logs, Kibana URL + common filters)
3. How to scale instances (cf scale -i N)
4. How to deploy a new version (mbt build && cf deploy --strategy blue-green)
5. How to roll back (deploy previous .mtar)
6. How to rotate XSUAA service key (cf create-service-key, update bindings)
7. How to check HANA health (BTP Cockpit → HANA Cloud → Monitor)
8. How to pause/unpause scheduled jobs (JSS cockpit)
9. Escalation path: who owns the BTP global account, who has SAP support access

First 24 hours after go-live

Time Action
T+0 Smoke tests pass ✓
T+30m Check Kibana — any unexpected ERROR log entries?
T+1h cf app — memory stable, no restarts
T+2h Check ANS — no alerts fired
T+4h Review response times — any endpoints > 1 s?
T+24h Check /health uptime monitor — 100% uptime?
T+24h Review HANA Cloud memory and CPU in BTP Cockpit

If something breaks in the first 24 hours, use the rollback procedure before trying to fix-forward — stability first, root-cause analysis second.

You made it

You have completed the SAP CAP: Zero to Deployed course.

Here is what you built knowledge of across all 80 episodes:

Ship something real. The best way to consolidate this knowledge is to build an application that solves a problem you actually have. Start small — one entity, one service, one deployment. Then grow it.

Good luck.

Checkpoint ✓

You have completed the entire course. You can navigate a production BTP deployment with confidence, diagnose issues using structured logs and distributed traces, and hand over a stable, monitored, secure application to operations.

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