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Building Docker Images with heroku.yml Is Generally Available

Last October, we announced the ability for you to deploy pre-built Docker images to Heroku via Container Registry. Today, building Docker images with heroku.yml is generally available; you can now:

Use git push heroku master to build your Docker images on Heroku
Take advantage of review apps in Docker-based projects

For most teams, using containers in production requires you to spend time setting up and maintaining complex infrastructure. By using heroku.yml to build your Docker images, you get the power and flexibility of using Docker to package your app, combined with Heroku’s high-productivity developer experience, container orchestration, an add-ons …

Buildpacks Go Cloud Native, Turning Source Code into Docker Images

Your Heroku application’s journey to production begins with a buildpack that detects what kind of app you have, what tools you need to run, and how to tune your app for peak performance. In this way, buildpacks reduce your operational burden and let you to spend more time creating value for your customers. That’s why we’re excited to announce a new buildpack initiative with contributions from Heroku and Pivotal.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has accepted Cloud Native Buildpacks to the Cloud Native Sandbox. Cloud Native Buildpacks turn source code into Docker images. In doing so, they give …

VPN Support for Heroku Private Spaces

Today we're excited to announce Site-to-Site Virtual Private Network (VPN) support for Heroku Private Spaces. Heroku customers can now establish secure, site-to-site IPsec connections between Private Spaces on Heroku and their offices, datacenters and deployments on non-AWS clouds.

VPN is a powerful, proven and widely-adopted technology for securely combining multiple networks (or adding individual hosts to a network) over encrypted links that span the public Internet. VPN is well-understood and in use by most enterprise IT departments, and is supported on all major cloud providers and by a range of hardware and software-based systems.

VPN support complements Private Space …

Internal Routing for Private Space Apps

Today we’re announcing a powerful new network control for apps running in Heroku Private Spaces: Internal Routing. Apps with Internal Routing work exactly the same as other Heroku apps, except the web process type is published to an endpoint that’s routable only within the Private Space and on VPC and VPN peered networks (see the Private Space VPN support companion post). Apps with Internal Routing are impossible to access directly from the public internet, improving security and simplifying management and compliance checks for web sites, APIs and services that must not be publicly accessible.

Internal Routing unlocks several …

Heroku CI Updates: Parallel Tests, CI API, and Automated UAT

Since we introduced Heroku CI over a year ago, we've been hard at work developing features aimed at making your testing speed even faster and workflow more optimized. Today we are pleased to announce Heroku CI Parallel Test Runs and the Heroku CI API are now generally available (GA) for all Heroku customers. Parallel Test Runs allows you to split up and execute test runs on up to 16 nodes. With the Heroku CI API, you can create, trigger, and receive test run info from your own custom workflow or CD tools. Additionally, we are opening up our support for …

Announcing ISO 27001, 27017, 27018 Certification and SOC2 Type I Attestation

Today we are proud to announce that Heroku has achieved several important compliance milestones that provide third party validation of our security best practices:

ISO 27001 Certification: Widely recognized and internationally accepted information security standard that specifies security management best practices and comprehensive security controls following ISO 27002 best practices guidance.
ISO 27017 Certification: A standard that provides additional guidance and implementation advice on information security aspects specific to cloud computing.
ISO 27018 Certification: Establishes commonly accepted control objectives, controls and guidelines for implementing measures to protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in accordance with defined privacy principles for public cloud …

Announcing General Availability of Heroku Shield Connect

Today we are pleased to announce general availability of Heroku Shield Connect, the latest addition to our lineup of Heroku Shield services.

Heroku Shield, announced last year, enabled new capabilities for Dynos, Postgres databases and Private Spaces that make Heroku suitable for high compliance environments such as those that fall under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations. Heroku Shield Connect extends this offering by enabling high performance, fully automated, and bi-directional data synchronization between Salesforce and Heroku Postgres for companies that need to build HIPAA-compliant applications – all in a matter of a few clicks.

With …

Auto Cert Management and More TLS Options for Private Spaces

Today we’re announcing two exciting TLS improvements for apps running in Private Spaces—Heroku’s runtime optimized for security-sensitive workloads that require network and tenant isolation:

Automated Certificate Management to automatically create, configure, and renew free TLS certificates for custom domains on Private Space apps
Expanded and updated cipher suite selections for TLS/SSL termination for Private Space apps

Together, ACM and greater TLS cipher suite flexibility makes building secure apps in Heroku Private Spaces simpler and less burdensome. Read on for details.

Automated Certificate Management

Automated Certificate Management (ACM) is now available at no extra cost for all apps in Heroku …

An Update on Redis Vulnerabilities and Patching

On May 10, 2018, we received notice about two critical vulnerabilities in Redis, both embargoed until this morning.

Upon this notice, our Data Infrastructure team proceeded to patch all internal and customer databases in response to these vulnerabilities. As of today, all customer databases have been patched successfully.

At Heroku, customer trust is our most important value – and we are grateful to have your trust in keeping a globally-distributed data fleet safe from harm. If you’re interested in more behind the scenes details, check out our engineering blog post on how our Data Infrastructure team undertook the effort …

Announcing Heroku CLI Autocomplete for Bash and Zsh

Today we're excited to announce that Heroku CLI Autocomplete for Bash and Zsh is generally available. Heroku CLI Autocomplete makes your workflow faster and more seamless by helping you complete command and flag names when you press the tab key. Autocomplete completes all Heroku CLI commands and will automatically support new commands as they are added. You can also complete values for some flags and args—including apps, pipelines and config vars—so you won't need to run multiple commands to find and cross-reference them.

We build the CLI first and foremost for human usability; Autocomplete takes usability a step further, making …

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