Michael Friis

Today we’re announcing the general availability of GitHub integration for Heroku. When enabled, GitHub pushes are deployed immediately to linked Heroku apps. This is a big step forward for people working on apps with source managed on GitHub and deployed to Heroku. The integration has been in beta in Heroku Dashboard for a while, and we’ve seen great adoption and positive feedback. When a GitHub repo is connected to a Heroku app, you can either manually deploy branches from the repo, or you can configure a particular branch to auto-deploy to the app on every GitHub push. With auto-deploys enabled,…

Last week, a security fix was released for Git. The fix patches a bug in the Git client that is exploitable on operating systems with case insensitive file systems such as Windows and OS X. Heroku has updated the Git installer that we ship with Toolbelt for Windows. We have also removed an old Git version from the OS X installer (it was not generally used). In addition, we’ve added a Git version warning in Toolbelt that will prompt you to update Git if you’re using a vulnerable version on Windows (shown here) or OS X: $ heroku apps WARNING:…

Today we’re happy to announce that the HTTP Git beta is over and that HTTP Git is fully ready for production. The beta was launched less than a month ago and we are already handling thousands of HTTP Git builds per day. In addition, HTTP Git powers the Dropbox Sync beta, making sure that Dropbox folders and Heroku repos are up-to-date. Over the past month, we have seen great adoption from partners, and Travis CI is using HTTP Git as the default git strategy for Heroku deployments. We encountered few issues during the beta, and we’re confident that HTTP Git…

Helping teams to collaborate on creating, shipping and operating great apps is a core Heroku value. People collaborating on Heroku apps are not all alike: Some spend all day in the terminal, others prefer using Heroku from a browser. That’s why we’ve built both a powerful CLI and a great Dashboard. Today, we’re adding beta support for Dropbox Sync to complement Git-based deployments. By adding Dropbox as a way to sync changes, we’re making it easier for more users on diverse teams to contribute to apps built on Heroku. Git is a powerful tool for software developers to collaborate on…

Of the many Platform-as-a-Service innovations Heroku has contributed in its seven year existence, perhaps the most iconic is git push heroku master. Today we’re announcing a significant upgrade to Heroku’s Git implementation: Beta support for Git’s HTTP transport. HTTP Git has some notable advantages over traditional SSH Git. Instead of relying on port 22 (often blocked by firewalls) HTTP Git runs on port 443, the same port used for secure web requests. Also, HTTP Git uses a simpler authentication model than SSH Git, and is easier to set up. Many new users struggle with the tooling and configuration required to…

We’re excited to announce that the Cedar-14 – the new version of the Celedon Cedar stack – is ready for general availability and is now the default stack on Heroku. Cedar-14 is based on the latest Ubuntu LTS Linux version and comes with a modern set of libraries and system dependencies that will stay current and updated for a long time to come. Since we announced the public beta of Cedar-14 three months ago, we have migrated most of the apps that we run on Heroku to Cedar-14 (yes, a lot of Heroku runs on the Heroku platform) and thousands…

On Wednesday, Uber launched an API to let developers build new products and services that leverage the Uber ridesharing platform. Uber built a simple Python/Flask app that developers can use when exploring how the API works. This is the sort of experimentation and innovation that we at Heroku want to enable, so we sent a pull request to add an app.json file to the repo and a Heroku Button to the readme. To deploy the Uber sample on Heroku and experiment with the new Uber API, simply register on the Uber developer site and then click the button below: Once…

At Heroku, we want to give our users access to the latest and greatest software stacks to base their apps on. That’s why we continuously update buildpacks to support new language and framework versions and let users experiment further using third-party buildpacks. Sitting underneath slugs and buildpacks are stacks. Stacks are the operating system and system libraries required to make apps run. Today we’re releasing into public beta a new version of the Celedon Cedar stack: cedar-14. cedar-14 is built on the latest LTS version of Ubuntu Linux and has recent versions of libraries and system dependencies that will receive…

At Heroku, we want to make the process of deploying, running and updating code simple and easy. To that end, we’re launching the Heroku Button: a simple HTML or Markdown snippet that can be added to READMEs, blog posts and other places where code lives. Clicking a Heroku Button will take you through a guided process to configure and deploy an app running the source code referenced by the button. The best way to understand the Heroku Button is to try one. Click the example button below to deploy a Node.js sample project to an app running on your Heroku…

Today, we are announcing an important addition to the Heroku Platform API: The /apps/:app/builds endpoint. This endpoint exposes the Heroku slug compilation process as a simple API primitive. You can use the endpoint to turn any publicly hosted source-tarball into a slug running on a Heroku app in seconds. Here’s output from a Go program that invokes the new endpoint: $ ./build -app limitless-fjord-5604 -archive https://github.com/heroku/node-js-sample/archive/master.tar.gz ……… —–> Node.js app detected —–> Requested node range: 0.10.x —–> Resolved node version: 0.10.28 —–> Downloading and installing node … $ curl http://limitless-fjord-5604.herokuapp.com/ Hello World! Here’s what is going on: an app name…