User-Provided Service Instances
A user-provided service instance is a mechanism in the Cloud Foundry environment that enables developers to use credentials for externally managed services — those not available in the SAP BTP service marketplace — within their applications. Developers create these instances to deliver connection details and credentials to applications in the same way that marketplace service instances do. You can create and manage user-provided service instances via the SAP BTP cockpit or by creating them directly in the Cloud Foundry environment.
Tutorials that teach this
- Tutorial Access a Classic Schema from SAP Business Application Studio
- Tutorial Enhance Your Project with Services, Synonyms and Grants
- Tutorial Managing User-Provided Environment Variables
- Tutorial Create a Development Project in SAP Business Application Studio
- Tutorial Access a Classic Schema from SAP Web IDE Full-Stack
- Tutorial Forward Logs and Container Metrics
Docs explaining this concept
Prerequisites
- Concept Cloud Foundry Environment Instance The concept provided is undefined, and the supplied sources cover general SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) topics — such as the [Cloud Foundry environment](https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/sap-business-technology-platform/40a8f8f6f1724e0ca0fd2a8777f45504?locale=en-US&state=PRODUCTION&version=Cloud), the ABAP environment, and BTP account setup — without identifying a specific named concept to define. No definition can be accurately produced without a clearly stated concept, as fabricating one would go beyond what the provided sources support.
- Concept SAP HANA Cloud with HDI Containers The concept name was not provided, and the available source snippets do not contain enough detailed textual content to accurately define a specific SAP developer concept. A reliable, source-grounded definition cannot be written without a valid concept name and supporting source text.
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- Concept SAP BTP Cloud Foundry Space Configuration The concept name provided is "undefined," and the supplied sources do not contain a definition or description of a specific, identifiable SAP developer concept that can be accurately and exclusively grounded in the given snippets. A reliable definition cannot be produced without a valid concept name and supporting source content.
- Concept SAP BTP Cockpit The concept name was not provided and the supplied source snippets do not define or describe a single, identifiable SAP developer concept — they cover a range of unrelated SAP BTP topics such as Kyma environment setup, Cloud Foundry org deletion, subaccount management, and service instances. A focused definition cannot be grounded solely in these sources without a clearly stated concept to define.