Getting Started With BTP, the SAP Business Technology Platform CLI

Explore the SAP Business Technology Platform command line interface (CLI) in this comprehensive video tutorial. Learn about the btp CLI, its availability on the SAP Development Tools website, and how to set it up in a development environment. Create a dev space on SAP Business Application Studio, retrieve and understand the getbtpcli script, and make the btp executable accessible from anywhere. Discover how to log in using the btp CLI, examine configuration file contents, and understand its storage location and behavior upon restart. Access valuable resources, including the SAP Tech Bytes repository and related blog posts, to enhance your understanding of this powerful tool for managing SAP BTP resources.

Welcome and introduction
What is the btp CLI?
The btp CLI is available on the SAP Development Tools website
Sharing the SAP Tech Bytes repository https://github.com/SAP-samples/sap-tech-bytes/
Creating a dev space on the SAP Business Application Studio
Retrieving the getbtpcli script see the blog post https://blogs.sap.com/2021/09/01/sap-tech-bytes-btp-cli-installation/
Looking through the getbtpcli script to understand how it works
Running getbtpcli to retrieve the btp CLI
Making the btp executable from anywhere by adding its location to the PATH
Sharing the drafts to the btp CLI blog posts, in the relevant branch of the SAP Tech Bytes repo
Logging in with the btp CLI
Examining the contents of the configuration file
Looking at the where the configuration file is stored and what happens to it on a restart