heroku-ci-badge

Get a Heroku CI badge for your repo's README file.

Requirements

A Heroku app
A Heroku Pipeline configured for that app
Use Heroku CI for that pipeline

Steps

1. Deploy this app to your account

During the setup, you will be asked to fill out two environment variables:

HEROKU_AUTH_TOKEN

Generate a token using

heroku authorizations:create -s "read" -S -d "heroku-ci-badge"

PIPELINE_ID

This should be the UUID of the pipeline to which Heroku CI is attached (9478101b-...) rather than the name of the pipeline (myapp-pipeline).

2. Once the app has been deployed, click the "View" button to see it.

You will be redirected to /last.svg, the URL for the dynamic badge.

3. Insert the badge into your README.md

[![Heroku CI Status](https://{deployed app name}.herokuapp.com/last.svg)](https://dashboard.heroku.com/pipelines/{pipeline ID}/tests)

Optional

Change how frequently the build result badge refreshes by setting the CACHE_TIMEOUT environment var (in seconds). The default value is 15 minutes.

heroku config:set CACHE_TIMEOUT="300" -a {deployed app name}

Note that a shorter cache period will result in more calls to the Heroku API, which may lead to elevated errors.

Setting CACHE_TIMEOUT to 0 is strongly discouraged.

Troubleshooting

If you're seeing...

... instead of a pass/fail mark, it means that the heroku-ci-badge app could not retrieve the build status.

Check that you've set the HEROKU_AUTH_TOKEN environment variable on your app
Check that your auth token is valid by running heroku authorizations . Note that token IDs (shown in the list) and the token values are not the same. Do you see the "heroku-ci-badge" token generated previously? If you run heroku authorizations:info {token id} is the Token: {token value} value the same as the one you set as the HEROKU_AUTH_TOKEN environment variable?
Check that you've set the PIPELINE_ID environment variable on your app
Check that the PIPELINE_ID value is valid by checking the pipeline URL https://dashboard.heroku.com/pipelines/{pipeline ID}
Check the app's log outputs for errors: heroku log -a {deployed app name}

If you're seeing...

... it means that:

the image URL might be wrong (check the public URL to your deployed app, and that you're referencing /last.svg)
your heroku-ci-badge app might be sleeping if you're using a Free Dyno. See here: "If an app has a Free web dyno, and that dyno receives no web traffic in a 30-minute period, it will sleep". Upgrade the dyno type to hobby (7$/month) to remedy.

Updating the app

Updating the app's code once it's deployed is not as easy as doing the initial deployment (i.e., it's not a single click). Based on the instructions here, here are the steps to update deployed heroku-ci-badge apps:

# instructions for the first update only (see below for further updates)
cd {some directory}
git init
heroku git:remote -a {deployed app name}
git remote add origin https://github.com/gregsadetsky/heroku-ci-badge
git pull origin master
git push heroku master

For further updates:

git pull origin master
git push heroku master

TODO

Support more than 1 pipeline (use /pipelines/{ID}/x.svg ?)
Support master and other branches (use /{branch}.svg and /pipelines/{branch}.svg ?)
Dogfood: use Heroku CI & show badge for this app

Thanks

Shields.io for the shield svg.
Ismar Slomic for the question & motivation.
Franz Geffke for the instructions on updating a Heroku app after it was deployed using a "Deploy to Heroku" button.
Heroku, for being awesome.

Disclaimers

This software is provided as is.
This project has no affiliation with Heroku.

Heather-Ridgill/heroku-ci-badge