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Deployment on heroku

Our application is deployed on heroku using heroku's container repository

Install the heroku cli​

We will use the cli for logging into our account and deplying our website. Install the heroku cli for you OS. You can find more info about heroku cli here

Log into you account​

heroku login

Provision an app​

You can provision an app on heroku dashboard or from the cli. To provision an app from the cli use the below command. be sure to give it a suitable name. for example i am giving it the name akc-react-frontend. We will use this name later to run commands on our app.

heroku apps:create akc-react-frontend --region eu

you can use already provisioned apps. Just use the name of your app.

Set stack of you application to container​

There are three types of stacks on heroku. We will be deploying on heroku wih conainer so we will set the stack of our application to container. You can find more info about heroku stacks here

heroku stack:set container -a akc-react-frontend

Log in to the heroku container repository​

heroku container:login

Push the container image to the heroku repository​

make sure you are in the root direcotry of the project where the Dockerfile resides

heroku container:push web -a akc-react-frontend

Release the image​

heroku container:release web -a akc-react-frontend