Question about local development for Heroku
davesque opened this issue · 8 comments
Is there any way to use this repository to build a local dev setup for Heroku apps? I can see there's a Vagrantfile and some scripts which seem to bootstrap the VM. However, this repo seems to be geared towards another purpose. How can I just end up with a local VM that's running my project?
The Vagrantfile is a means of bootstrapping the process that builds the stack image. We don't currently offer a packaged solution that's capable of doing what you want.
I want to learn more about your use case. Can you share why you want a virtual machine that's like Heroku? How are you hoping to use it?
@tt I'll jump in here. I'd like to use a virtual machine like Heroku so I can develop locally before pushing to stage.
similar, I'm currently learning the ins/ outs of Vagrant and thought it would be cool to setup a Vagrant machine mimicking the live stack my site runs on.
Ideally i'd treat the machine exactly like I treat Heroku, I'd push to it with Git, where it would run my build pack and compile my app to a slug. Similar to how my Heroku setup works.
This way I can push there instead of Heroku in order to test the deployment of my app before I push to Heroku.
It's a good knowledge building exercise I think, and would integrate well with small teams of developers who are working on a single project. Rather than pushing to the live domain to check if a feature is displaying correctly (and thus potentially compromise the environment for any other developers running similar checks) he can vagrant up and push to virtual machine instead.
https://github.com/progrium/dokku
I've been pointed over towards dokku on the heroku build forums.
https://discussion.heroku.com/t/vagrant-box-local-development/1052/5
It looks interesting, can someone confirm how valid a Dokku Vagrant box would be as a testing platform? Would it hold up when I push an application to my Heroku live sites?
I've ended up here a couple of times via google when looking for heroku compatible vagrant images for local development, and it's definitely confusing that the readme doesn't say what it is and isn't for, since there's a vagrant file.
I've still yet to find a perfect install. Dokku looks like it fits the bill but then my build fails.
We've recently published a CLI plugin that enables local dev and deploy using Docker tools.
We're working on improvements, sign up for the beta to get updates.
Gotta be said. That looks very cool.