Deploying with Heroku

Deploying Rails applications to Heroku Platform as a Service, Presented to capetown.rb

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1. Deploying with Application Platform as a Service Cape Town Ruby Brigade – Sept 2012 Chris Stefano
2. Infrastructure as a Service  Provides abstraction of • Servers • Storage • Networking  Infrastructure as code
3. Platform as a Service  Provides abstraction of • Operating System • Application Stack  Managed  Pre-configured
4. Software as a Service  Provides components/applications as services • Databases • Logging • Emailing  Application building blocks
5. Heroku...  Is a mix of PaaS and Saas  Application Platform (as a Service)  Manages all the hard stuff... • Deployment • Release management • Configuration • Life cycle management • Scaling • High availability • Logging
6. History  Originally only supported Ruby stack • Ruby on Rails • Sinatra • Any Rack compatible application  New “Cedar Stack“ supports others • Python • Node.js • Clojure • etc...
8. Getting Started  Create your application  Create application on Heroku  Deploy your application  Optionally, configure your application  Run you application  View logs  Scale up  Console
9. Demo
10. Add-ons  Checkout Heroku website for lists of add-ons
11. Build Packs  Mechanism for extending platform  Specified when creating application • heroku create <name> -s cedar -b <pack_url>  List of available build packs • http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/third-party-buildpacks  Sources • http://github.com/heroku
12. Running Costs  Based on usage!  First ±744 hours per month free • 1 process running for a month  *Unlimited number of applications  Dedicated databases expensive  Consider what you are getting ~ hassle free cloud computing!  Runs on AWS ~ any other servers hosted have free bandwidth to Heroku
13. Alternatives  CloudFoundry ➔ www.cloudfoundry.com  CloudBees ➔ www.cloudbees.com  AppHarbor ➔ www.appharbor.com  DotCloud ➔ www.dotcloud.com
14. Questions
15. Web Links  Heroku - http://www.heroku.com  How it works - http://www.heroku.com/how  Price Calculator - http://www.heroku.com/pricing  Add-ons - https://addons.heroku.com  Build Packs - https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/buildpacks  Heroku Open Source - https://github.com/heroku  Third Party Build Packs - https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/third-party-buildpacks  Multi Build Pack - https://github.com/ddollar/heroku-buildpack-multi
16. Thank You virtualstaticvoid@gmail.com @virtstaticvoid github.com/virtualstaticvoid