Deployment¶
Deployment with Heroku¶
If you’re new to Heroku, their getting started guide will walk you through the basics of creating a generic, non-dockerized Python app. If you don’t have it yet, install the Heroku CLI.
We can create a Heroku app by running
heroku create
within our project. Once you’ve done it, Heroku will provide you with the following message:`` Creating app… done, ⬢ one-example-12345 https://one-example-12345.herokuapp.com/ | https://git.heroku.com/one-example-12345.git ``
In this case,
one-example-12345
is the name of the app; yours is likely to be different.Make sure you link the Heroku app with your repository by running
heroku git:remote -a [app_name]
.For environment variables in production, you can set the config variables by running the following command:
heroku config:set PRODUCTION_HOST=[app_name].herokuapp.com SECRET_KEY=[your secret key] DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=backend.settings.production
You can generate a valid Django Secret Key via this link. REMEMBER to put the key between apostrophes (‘), or you will likely get a
-bash: ****: event not found
error.
Now run
heroku stack:set container
to tell our Heroku app to use Docker.At this point, you’re ready to deploy: run
git push heroku master
.Checkout https://[app_name].herokuapp.com. You should be able to see your web app ready!