SAP Service Manager on Business Technology Platform - Final Episode

Embark on the final episode of a mini-series exploring SAP Service Manager on SAP Business Technology Platform. Dive into advanced topics such as OSBAPI, service brokers, OAuth, and Cloud Foundry while creating service instances, managing bindings, and interacting with APIs. Learn to leverage tools like jq, fx, and ngrok for efficient development workflows. Gain hands-on experience in creating and deleting service instances, understanding OAuth token requests, and authenticating API calls. Explore the intricacies of SAP API Business Hub and discover how to effectively use the Service Manager API. Perfect for developers looking to deepen their understanding of SAP's cloud platform and service management capabilities.

Welcome and introduction
Reviewing where we got to last time
Creating an instance of the ElephantSQL service
Talking about the similarity between bindings and service keys
Preparing to request an access token for the client credentials grant type
Understanding the relationship between offering and plan output from btp
Creating an instance of the Service Manager service, and a binding
Being pleasantly surprised that the human output for btp get service/binding is YAML
Understanding where the OAuth-required credentials are in the binding
Creating a short script to make the OAuth token request call
Examining the token data, in particular the scopes information inside the token itself
Using the access_token to authenticate an API call to list the service instances
Preparing and executing a call to delete an instance via the API
Summing up the adventures we've had together!