Heroku 101 (v2!)

A quick intro into Heroku (live demo + Q&A throughout).

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1. Heroku 101 Kenneth Reitz
2. Hi.
3. @kennethreitz
4. Requests HTTP for Humans
5. github.com/kennethreitz • ~20 serious projects. • 100+ experiments. • OSX-GCC-Installer: 56TB of downloads. • Requests: 80+ million downloads.
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9. Confusion as a Service SaaS (software) IaaS (infrastructure) PaaS (platform) SaaS, IaaS, & PaaS. For software users. More features, transparent updates. Facebook, Basecamp, Trello, etc. For operations people. On demand machine resources. AWS, Digital Ocean, etc. For developers. Transparent updates, no servers. Heroku, App Engine, etc.
12. DEMO
13. Heroku: Run exactly the processes you tell us to run.
14. Python, Locally. pip & virtualenv $ virtualenv venv $ source bin/activate $ pip install -r requirements.txt
15. Python, on Heroku. pip & deployed $ pip install -r requirements.txt
16. Python, Locally. Running an example webserver. $ python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
17. Python, on Heroku. Running an example webserver. $ cat Procfile web: python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
18. What's a Dyno? Not a Server Not a VM
19. A Dyno is a Process, running in a Container.
20. Interacting with Dynos. Scaling a multi-process web application. $ cat Procfile web: python manage.py runserver worker: python manage.py celeryd -E -B $ heroku scale web=2 $ heroku scale worker=3:standard-1x
21. Run Arbitrary Commands. Managing a multi-process web application. $ heroku run python manage.py migrate ... $ heroku run python ... $ heroku run bash ...
22. Addon Services Managed and provisioned infrastructure resources. Postgres Redis Kafka Memcached Mongo Email Metrics Logging
23. Interacting with Addons. Augmenting a multi-process web application. $ heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql $ heroku addons:create sentry
24. Interacting with Addons. Augmenting a multi-process web application. $ heroku config === pure-plateau-37918 Config Vars DATABASE_URL: postgres://xxx:xxx@xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com:5432/xxx SENTRY_DSN: https://xxx:xxx@app.getsentry.com/xxx
25. Application Configuration. Configuring a multi-process web application. $ heroku config:set hello=world Setting hello and restarting ⬢ pure-plateau-37918... done, v5 hello: world $ cat example.py import os who = os.environ.get('hello', 'you')
26. Tutorial Time! hrku.co/pycon101