Terraform Heroku provider: Does it have resource for dyno? - heroku

Question

Using terraform, I could create Heroku applications, create and attach add-ons and put the applications in a pipeline. After the infrastructure is created, everything is good except the dynos are not started. I used heroku/nodejs buildpack. Terraform's Heroku provider does not provide any explicit resource type that corresponds to Heroku dyno. Are we supposed to manually push application for deployment on Heroku when the necessary add-ons and pipeline are created with Terraform?
I googled a lot but couldn't figure out what could be the reason for the dynos not getting started after necessary infrastructure is in place.
Please help.

Answer 1

so today I wanted to test heroku with terraform and got the same issue
it looks like you need to push your app to the git_url reference provided by heroku_app
made a working example at https://github.com/nroitero/terraform_heroku

Answer 2

I'm doing as the example below, and it works.
First, defining the heroku app:
resource "heroku_app" "this" {
name = var.HEROKU_APP_NAME
region = var.HEROKU_REGION
space = var.HEROKU_SPACE
internal_routing = var.HEROKU_INTERNAL_ROUTING
Then, indicating where the node application is:
resource "heroku_build" "this" {
app = heroku_app.this.name
#buildpacks = [var.BUILDPACK_URL]
source = {
#url = var.SOURCE_URL
#version = var.SOURCE_VERSION
#testing path instead of source
path = var.SOURCE_PATH
}
}
And to define dynos, I'm using:
resource "heroku_formation" "this" {
app = heroku_app.this.name
type = var.HEROKU_FORMATION_TYPE
quantity = var.HEROKU_FORMATION_QTY
size = var.HEROKU_FORMATION_SIZE
depends_on = [heroku_build.this]
}
For the dyno size parameter (var.HEROKU_FORMATION_SIZE), use the official dyno type "name" as listed on https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dyno-types.
For private spaces, names are: private-s, private-m and private-l.