HostingOnHeroku

Hosting on Heroku

This tutorial explain how to host the API on Heroku.

⚠️ Update : Heroku no longer has a free option.
A tutorial to host BlogCore on Render is available (Render has a free tier).

Heroku

• Heroku have a free option for non-commercial app (proof of concept, personal projects, etc.).
  • Heroku can also provide the database for free.
• Heroku is easy to use (automatic deployment from github repository, not much configuration to do).
  • In case of personal project, perfect for saving time.
• A developer community exists on Heroku

Configuration

• Create your Heroku app
• Inside Deploy section, connect the repository with GitHub option.
  • You just have to fork the GitHub repository first and then you can interconnect it with your Heroku app.
• Inside Resources section, add a Heroku Postgre Add-On.
• Go to the Settings section
  • Add https://github.com/jincod/dotnetcore-buildpack inside the Buildpacks
    • Enables the use of .NET Core on Heroku
  • Go to Config Vars and click on Reveal Config Vars
    • Create a variable DatabaseProvider with value HerokuPostgreSQL
      • The API will use the DATABASE_URL environment variable of Heroku (DATABASE_URL is automatically set by Heroku when Postgres add-on is provisioned to an app)).
    • You can also override appsettings.json values
      • For example :
        • Jwt:Issuer -> https://mydevblogapi.herokuapp.com
        • Jwt:Secret -> anAwesomeVerySuperSecretKey
        • Jwt:ExpirationInDays -> 2
• Follow Create and configure the database in order to initialize the Heroku Postgre database.
  • The explanations to follow are for PostgreSQL database.
  • You just have to specify HerokuPostgreSQL instead of PostgreSQL or MsSQL for "DatabaseProvider": "" and complete "ConnectionStrings": { "Default" : "" } with Heroku postgre Database Credentials
• Restart your Heroku app.
• You can now open in a web page https://[YourHerokuAppName].herokuapp.com/swagger/index.html