Heroku is another popular PaaS platform. To customize Heroku builds, you provide a
Procfile, which provides the incantation required to deploy an application. Heroku
assigns a port for the Java application to use and then ensures that routing to the
external URI works.
You must configure your application to listen on the correct port. This is a breeze with
Spring Boot. Here’s the Procfile for our starter REST application:
web: java -Dserver.port=$PORT -jar target/demo-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
Spring Boot makes -D arguments available as properties accessible from a Spring
Environment instance. The server.port configuration property is fed to the embedded
Tomcat or Jetty instance which then uses it when it starts up. The $PORT environment
variable is assigned to us by the Heroku PaaS.
Heroku by default will use Java 1.6. This is fine as long as your Maven or Gradle build
is set to use the same version (Maven users can use the java.version property). If you
want to use JDK 1.7, create a new file adjacent to your pom.xml and Procfile,
called system.properties. In this file add the following:
java.runtime.version=1.7
This should be everything you need. The most common workflow for Heroku deployments is to
git push the code to production.
$ git push heroku master Initializing repository, done. Counting objects: 95, done. Delta compression using up to 8 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (78/78), done. Writing objects: 100% (95/95), 8.66 MiB | 606.00 KiB/s, done. Total 95 (delta 31), reused 0 (delta 0) -----> Java app detected -----> Installing OpenJDK 1.7... done -----> Installing Maven 3.0.3... done -----> Installing settings.xml... done -----> executing /app/tmp/cache/.maven/bin/mvn -B -Duser.home=/tmp/build_0c35a5d2-a067-4abc-a232-14b1fb7a8229 -Dmaven.repo.local=/app/tmp/cache/.m2/repository -s /app/tmp/cache/.m2/settings.xml -DskipTests=true clean install [INFO] Scanning for projects... Downloading: http://repo.spring.io/... Downloaded: http://repo.spring.io/... (818 B at 1.8 KB/sec) .... Downloaded: http://s3pository.heroku.com/jvm/... (152 KB at 595.3 KB/sec) [INFO] Installing /tmp/build_0c35a5d2-a067-4abc-a232-14b1fb7a8229/target/... [INFO] Installing /tmp/build_0c35a5d2-a067-4abc-a232-14b1fb7a8229/pom.xml ... [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD SUCCESS [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 59.358s [INFO] Finished at: Fri Mar 07 07:28:25 UTC 2014 [INFO] Final Memory: 20M/493M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -----> Discovering process types Procfile declares types -> web -----> Compressing... done, 70.4MB -----> Launching... done, v6 http://agile-sierra-1405.herokuapp.com/ deployed to Heroku To [email protected]:agile-sierra-1405.git * [new branch] master -> master
That should be it! Your application should be up and running on Heroku.