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Heroku 2018: Advancing Developer Experience, Trust & Compliance, and Data

2018 was an amazing year for Heroku and our customers. We want to extend a big thank you for your feedback, beta participation, and spirit of innovation, which inspires us every day to continuously improve and advance the platform.

In the past year, we released a range of new features to make the developer experience more productive, more standards based, and more open. We achieved significant compliance milestones, provided trust controls for creating multi-cloud apps, …

Improving the SSO Experience: CLI Login and Certificate Management

We are happy to announce two major improvements to our SSO experience for Heroku Enterprise customers: easier SSO login for users via the Heroku CLI, and the ability for admins to add more than one certificate at the Enterprise Team level.

Logging into all your different cloud applications can be a pain. We know that many of you like to use Heroku via the command line interface and in your web browser side-by-side, and until …

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 …

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) …

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.

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.

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, …

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
    • …

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 this major enhancement to Heroku Shield, it’s now easier than ever to build high compliance applications and services while seamlessly integrating with Salesforce as the system of record for customer data.

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 …

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