Problem

• We have web application
• And we need to deploy it to a production environment
• Our tactic?

By steps

• Spin up a server
• Install all software
• Set up permissions and access rights
• Identify deploy/build process for our code

All this steps take too much time!

What can we do?

Use heroku

it takes care off all this steps

and allows us to deploy our app in a few minutes

 Programming languages

• Instant Deployment with Git push
• Add-ons (applications, databases and more)
• Independent scaling for each component of our app
• Each process is completely isolated from others
• Easy access to all logging output from every component

Main features

Example

First we need an app

Let's clone this one from heroku tutorial

$ git clone https://github.com/heroku/
  node-js-getting-started.git

$ cd node-js-getting-started

Next we need to create an app on Heroku

$ heroku create

Creating sharp-rain-871... done, stack is cedar-14
http://sharp-rain-871.herokuapp.com/ | 
https://git.heroku.com/sharp-rain-871.git
Git remote heroku added

Now git remote (called heroku) created and associated with our local git repository.

And all we need to deploy our app - is to push it

$ git push heroku master

Counting objects: 343, done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (224/224), done.

Now we can open our web-app with url, or by using this handy shortcut

$ heroku open

Heroku provides very well written tutorials which allow us to start in minutes.

To learn and see more about uploadig apps visit this link