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Build and Deploy Heroku Apps with Docker

92 points by troethom 11y ago

japhyr 11y ago
I've heard lots of good things about Docker, and lots of seemingly valid criticisms of Docker. I love the concept - I'd benefit from having a development environment that's identical to the environment I'm deploying to. I'd love to hear from people with significant experience deploying apps. What's your take on Heroku's approach to using Docker?
dmak 11y ago
Honestly, if anything, I think Heroku needs servers in Asia
matt2000 11y ago
The announcement I would love to hear from Heroku: "We found out about Moore's law and are passing some of that on to you." As far as I know, their dyno specs have never improved or decreased in cost. This is coming from someone who loves Heroku, but wish the dynos were better.
- benologist 11y ago
  They have new pricing coming soon that includes new dynos but they're not getting any cheaper - and ditching 24/7 free dynos. http://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/881 http://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/881
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  - hunterloftis 11y ago
    According to that link, the price for 1X and 2X dynos is dropping from $35/month to $25/month and from $70/month to $50/month, respectively. That's cheaper, no?
    - benologist 11y ago
      Oops I didn't catch that change.
  - fooey 11y ago
    ack Heroku is my goto for sites because I can throw my fun little test hobbyist sites on there too. I might actually have to invest the time to figure out how to host Node/IO on someone else if their free tier goes away
- jordanthoms 11y ago
  Completely agree - this is especially the case when you get to scale where the 1x and 2x dynos break down because their performance is very variable, so you have to go to PX which are $$$
liquimoon 11y ago
Following the instruction for "heroku plugins:install heroku-docker" and got Installing heroku-docker... failed ! Could not install heroku-docker. Please check the URL and try again. I've already upgraded to the latest Toolbelt. Thoughts?
- dickeytk 11y ago
  you sure you're on the latest version? 3.35.0?
  - bussiere 11y ago
    same here ... Mayber not version usable under nux ?
  - liquimoon 11y ago
    Hmm, looks like the toolbelt website (https://toolbelt.heroku.com/ https://toolbelt.heroku.com/) is not for the latest toolbelt?! I updated using gem update and got the latest 3.35.1. But then when I updated heroku gem, I got the deprecation warning... ! The `heroku` gem has been deprecated and replaced with the Heroku Toolbelt. ! Download and install from: https://toolbelt.heroku.com https://toolbelt.heroku.com ! For API access, see: https://github.com/heroku/heroku.rb https://github.com/heroku/heroku.rb
    - dickeytk 11y ago
      don't use the gem, install with the toolbelt

92 points by troethom 11y ago

I've heard lots of good things about Docker, and lots of seemingly valid criticisms of Docker. I love the concept - I'd benefit from having a development environment that's identical to the environment I'm deploying to. I'd love to hear from people with significant experience deploying apps. What's your take on Heroku's approach to using Docker?

dmak 11y ago

Honestly, if anything, I think Heroku needs servers in Asia

matt2000 11y ago

The announcement I would love to hear from Heroku: "We found out about Moore's law and are passing some of that on to you." As far as I know, their dyno specs have never improved or decreased in cost. This is coming from someone who loves Heroku, but wish the dynos were better.

benologist 11y ago
They have new pricing coming soon that includes new dynos but they're not getting any cheaper - and ditching 24/7 free dynos. http://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/881 http://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/881
- deleted 11y ago
  [deleted]
- hunterloftis 11y ago
  According to that link, the price for 1X and 2X dynos is dropping from $35/month to $25/month and from $70/month to $50/month, respectively. That's cheaper, no?
  - benologist 11y ago
    Oops I didn't catch that change.
- fooey 11y ago
  ack Heroku is my goto for sites because I can throw my fun little test hobbyist sites on there too. I might actually have to invest the time to figure out how to host Node/IO on someone else if their free tier goes away
jordanthoms 11y ago
Completely agree - this is especially the case when you get to scale where the 1x and 2x dynos break down because their performance is very variable, so you have to go to PX which are $$$

liquimoon 11y ago

Following the instruction for "heroku plugins:install heroku-docker" and got Installing heroku-docker... failed ! Could not install heroku-docker. Please check the URL and try again. I've already upgraded to the latest Toolbelt. Thoughts?

dickeytk 11y ago
you sure you're on the latest version? 3.35.0?
- bussiere 11y ago
  same here ... Mayber not version usable under nux ?
- liquimoon 11y ago
  Hmm, looks like the toolbelt website (https://toolbelt.heroku.com/ https://toolbelt.heroku.com/) is not for the latest toolbelt?! I updated using gem update and got the latest 3.35.1. But then when I updated heroku gem, I got the deprecation warning... ! The `heroku` gem has been deprecated and replaced with the Heroku Toolbelt. ! Download and install from: https://toolbelt.heroku.com https://toolbelt.heroku.com ! For API access, see: https://github.com/heroku/heroku.rb https://github.com/heroku/heroku.rb
  - dickeytk 11y ago
    don't use the gem, install with the toolbelt