Heroku

Overview

Heroku is a Platform as a Service that makes deploying and hosting Spree applications super easy.

You should just follow Heroku Rails 6 guide.

We recommend you start and stick to Heroku if you do not have DevOps-skilled team members. Spree Starter is pre-configured to work with Heroku out of the box.

Dynos

Heroku Dynos are lightweight, isolated environments that provide compute and run your application.

There are 2 types of dynos:

• Web - for running the web interface of yuour Store Storefront, API, Admin Panel
• Worker - for running background jobs via Active Job such as email send out, report generation, etc

Recommended sizing

Dynos	Staging environment	Production environment
web	1 x Standard-2x	1 x Performance-M or Performance-L
worker	1 x Standard-1x	1 x Standard-1x

Add-Ons

Heroku Add-Ons are tools and services for developing, extending, and operating your app.

Recommended Add-Ons and plans

Plan	Staging environment	Production environment
Bucketeer	Hobbyist	Micro
Edge	Hobby	Micro
Heroku Postgres	Hobby Basic	Standard-0
Sendgrid	Free	Bronze
Sentry	Free	Small

Other resources

• https://devcenter.heroku.com/categories/reference
• https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-rails6
• https://devcenter.heroku.com/categories/monitoring-metrics
• https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/deploying-rails-applications-with-the-puma-web-server