CI/CD Viya 4 Deployment

[tlorel]

Hi All, Any reference documents you have to on how to perform a CI/CD in a Viya 4 Deployment in a cloud environment?

[MCoopmans]

The best is probably to start from the official documentation : https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/sasadmincdc/v_025/k8sag/p0hm2t63wm8qcqn1iqs6y8vw8y81.htm 

You can find links in there to a manual CI/CD update or using the Deployment Operator.

[RobCollum]

Hey there,

That's a great question. SAS does provide some significant tools to help with the CI/CD deployment and management of SAS software in your environment. Many of them are hosted in Github at https://github.com/sassoftware. 

To get started with provisioning resources in your cloud provider of choice, check out the IaC project (Infrastructure as Code):

- Amazon: https://github.com/sassoftware/viya4-iac-aws 

- Azure: https://github.com/sassoftware/viya4-iac-azure 

- Google: https://github.com/sassoftware/viya4-iac-gcp 

And then, once you've gotten to the place where you have resources, we also provide automation to deploy SAS Viya:

- viya4-deployment: https://github.com/sassoftware/viya4-deployment 

We even offer a python-based set of scripting tools to extend the ability to administer your SAS Viya environment:

- pyViyaTools: https://github.com/sassoftware/pyviyatools 

And I'm just getting started. The sassoftware channel on Github is home to numerous projects which will come in handy for the day-to-day operations of SAS Viya. 

[AllanBowe]

What is it you're looking to deploy?

If it's mainly SAS code (eg data engineering or data science projects), or SAS-Powered Web Apps, the SASjs framework (disclaimer - built by my team) could be a good fit.  These tools are free to use, open source, comprehensive, and work across Viya 4 / Viya 3.5 / SAS 9 EBI and even Foundation SAS.

On the Viya side they make use of the REST APIs and a client/secret pair to handle all connections to SAS.  It allows your developers to work locally, in a GIT repository and their preferred IDE, to compile / build / deploy projects to SAS.

Being terminal based, everything is possible as part of a CI/CD pipeline / action / runner.

Some videos here:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ7O833IUmeUAYTWTvSFNRQ

An explainer here: https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Global-Forum-Proceedings/Scaffolding-SAS-Projects-With-NPM-and-SA...

Some additional 'goodies' from using the framework:

* An opinionated structure for SAS projects - easily migrate developers from one project to anther

* A linter to automatically quality check SAS code during a git pre-commit or server build

* Ability to run jobs, job flows, web services, manage viya folders etc

* Self-documenting jobs / services / tests (uses Doxygen)

* An integrated TESTING framework

Docs:  https://cli.sasjs.io

Github: https://github.com/sasjs

/Allan