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CAP Operator deploys and manages the lifecycle of multi-tenant SAP Cloud Application Programming Model based applications and related components, within a Kubernetes cluster.

What are the main features of CAP Operator?

• Quick and easy deployment of CAP application back ends, router, and related networking components.
• Integration with SAP Software-as-a-Service Provisioning service to handle asynchronous tenant subscription requests, executing provisioning / deprovisioning tasks as Kubernetes jobs.
• Automated upgrades of known tenants as soon as new application versions are available.
• Support of deployment of service-specific content / configuration as a Kubernetes job with every application version (for example, HTML5 application content to SAP HTML5 Application Repository service).
• Management of TLS certificates and DNS entries related to the deployed application, with support of customer-specific domains.

Here’s an overview of the major automation steps handled by CAP Operator during the deployment of the application:

Explore the following chapters to learn more.