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Mårten Gustafson
February 03, 2015
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Heroku as a production platform
Learnings from using Heroku to host a production system, presented at Jfokus in Stockholm.
Mårten Gustafson
February 03, 2015
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Transcript
as a production platform
Howdy! I’m Mårten Gustafson
None
Why?
Servers We saw no need
Architecture 12 factor compliance
DevOps No ops/infra team
Our setup
None
Our history Glesys => UpCloud => Heroku
Since November 2013
Red Green Refactor
Red Green Refactor Code push
Bronson.io Red Green Refactor Open PR Code review, build &
unit tests
Bronson.io Red Green Refactor Code review, build & unit tests
Bronson.io Red Green Refactor Merge to master Build & unit
tests
Bronson.io Red Green Refactor Build & unit tests Stage deploy
Bronson.io Red Green Refactor Stage deploy
Bronson.io Red Green Refactor Production deploy
Bronson.io Red Green Refactor
Learnings
Organizations Organisation == Environment
Preboot Zero downtime deploy
Add-ons per-app per-env control
Delegate Access & responsibility
Pipelines Don’t push, promote
Auto-deploy At least to staging
Transparency Audit trail & chat log
Challenges
Service discovery We use DNS
Auto-scaling API vs add-ons
Provisioning terraform.io
SSL certificates manual vs add-ons
Questions?
[email protected]