I am trying to get heroku setup locally on my new laptop to be able to access an existing heroku account that has two existing rails apps on it. I was able to install heroku cli locally and I was able to login to heroku. If I run "heroku apps" it lists my two apps. But two things I need help with:
1) I can't remember how to tell heroku which app the git repo in the current folder on my laptop should work with on heroku server. in other words, how do i "select" which app i want to current work with after logging into heroku.
2) when I tried running the "heroku config" command to list existing config vars after logging it it gave me some kind of error message. need some suggestions on what might be causing that too.
Sorry to not include screen shots of errors but on a different company right now. hopefully you can at least help me answer the first question.
Thanks,
Edward
ps. I found this Q&A, does the answer here apply to my question (1)?
How to link a folder with an existing Heroku app
The cause turned out to be that I needed to add the heroku app location as a remote repo using the heroku cli from within my local git repo I had created. I used the following command:
heroku git:remote -a thawing-inlet-61413
where "thawing-inlet-61413" is the name of the app. You can get this by running:
heroku apps
and it will list them.
reference: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/git#creating-a-heroku-remote
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Very inexperienced user here...please be patient!
I inherited maintenance of Heroku app from someone no longer with the company. Having to re-deploy an app update is probably a once-a-year event, and here we are.
The instructions I have include building a standalone jar file containing my app and then deploying it to Heroku. Specifically the procedure for this is to use the Heroku CLI with the following command:
heroku deploy:jar webapp.jar -a my-app
Easy enough. Except he had his own instance of the Heroku CLI, and when I went to download my own copy, it appears that the deploy command no longer exists! Is this the case? Is this a deprecated command? Do I need to go through the process of figuring out how to set up a git repository to deploy this? (We are in fact using git to manage the source for this app, but it's behind our company firewall, so I'm not sure how practical/difficult it will be to set this up for Heroku). I just want to make sure I'm not missing something simple before investing a significant amount of time re-inventing the deployment process. Thanks.
The most popular mechanism is indeed to push the code from git to Heroku, providing the necessary files (i.e. profcile) to deploy the runtime.
An alternative is to create a Docker image and push it to the Heroku Registry (which in your case would require more reworking).
Refer to Deploy with Git, the firewall should not be a problem as Heroku will not access your code, but you will need to perform the push (git push heroku master)
I have to answer my own question because I was able to find the solution.
It turns out there is a plugin available for the heroku CLI that provides the deploy command. Running heroku plugins:install java will install the plugin that provides the deploy command in the heroku CLI.
See https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/deploying-executable-jar-files for more information.
I am trying to simply execute heroku run [app-name] for a Heroku app that is within a Heroku Team I created so that I can import my .SQL file to the app's add-on MariaDB.
When I try to use heroku apps:join -a [app-name], I get an error User [my-user] is a team admin and cannot be joined on app [app-name].
When I use heroku run [app-name], I get an error Couldn't find that app.
Yes, I'm logged in to Heroku. I've been trying at this for probably 6 hours now and have had no luck. Any help on how I can run my bash command would be so appreciated.
Hope you are all staying safe,
Zach
You can try to run heroku access to see what account already had access to this app.
I think you are trying to add an account which having access (Team Admin) already.
Thanks.
I am sharing a MongoDB between a few heroku apps and would like to move the ownership/billing to another app.
I have tried attaching (heroku addons:attach) to the receiving app and then using the heroku addons:detach command on the billing app, but this doesn't work.
Heroku support just confirmed that it is not possible to change the billing app for an add-on.
You can attach the add-on to other apps, but if you delete the original billing app then it will instantly delete your database without warning - even if it is attached to other active apps.
Some add-ons like Postgres offer a fork option, so you may be able fork, reconnect to the new instance, and delete the old database. The Postgres fork command looks like:
heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql:standard-0 --fork the-old-app-name::HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_CHARCOAL --app the-new-app-name
Where HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_CHARCOAL is the ENV variable name of your old database on your old app.
I have a main app on heroku and another app A on git in location github:a.
I want to create, when it is necessary, copies of A as A1,A2,A3...AN as separate apps on heroku from my main app automatically with different parameters.
How can i do that?
Edit: This process should be done by my main app automatically.
Updating this answer due to Heroku command DEPRECATION:
heroku fork has been deprecated as a core command as of 12/01/2017.
You will need to install the heroku-fork plugin to continue using this command.
heroku plugins:install heroku-fork
Here is a link to the Github plugin repo.
Use heroku fork to copy an existing application, including add-ons, config vars, and Heroku Postgres data.
See this KB page: Forking Applications.
Heroku toolbelt now provides a fork method to clone an existing application, see my answer here :
how to clone a project on heroku
There is a new feature on Heroku called Review Apps. One can create copies of the app manually or set up automatic copies from new PRs on Github.
Read more at: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/github-integration-review-apps
Simply create new applications and push your code to them. If you need to copy data, checkout the pgbackups transfers.
For management purposes, check out this dev center article.
To do this programatically, you'll need to look at the Heroku gem, and then figure out a way of getting something to git push to the appropriate remote. I would be surprised if this was possible to be honest.
It's a pretty simple problem. I need to get my heroku CLI app working with an app I have. I already have the git repo checked out (from github though, not sure if that matters).
A google search suggests this page is the place to go to get help, but the page doesn't tell me anything useful:
http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-command
If you've already checked out the code all you need to need is setup a git remote pointing at heroku.
Locate your apps Gtit url - easiest place is from the 'My Apps' on Heroku in the 'Git Repo' panel, it will look something like git#heroku.com:stark-beach-5145.git
Back in your local git repo do (replacing with your app URL):
git remote add heroku git#heroku.com:stark-beach-5145.git
Now you will be able to perform git push heroku etc.
However, if you just want to use heroku commands as long as you explicitly pass in the application name you don't actually need to perform steps 1 and 2 above. eg
heroku ps --app <appname>
would show you the running processes for your application etc. Here appname is the name of the app as listed on the 'My Apps' page.