heroku/heroku-kong

Docker Kong and Heroku

roth-mike opened this issue · 3 comments

roth-mike commented

Is there any reason why we shouldn't deploy Kong using Docker on Heroku? If not, what are the benefits of using the heroku-kong-buildpack over deploying using Docker on Heroku? We're having issues running 0.13.1 with the buildpack.

mars commented

We have not worked on this buildpack since Kong version 0.11. It was a proof-of-concept.

Reasons that I can remember for why Docker did not work for us originally (these may no longer be the case with the current version):

  • Kong uses multiple network ports, and thus requires config customization to make it work with Heroku's single web listener $PORT
  • Kong uses a file-based configuration, and thus requires an adapter to translate Heroku config vars into runtime config files

Definitely use Docker if that works! Would love to hear about your results.

mars commented

I've created a PR for Kong 0.14.0.

Feel free to try it out and please give feedback on the PR.

mars commented

This app now deploys Kong 0.14.1 from master!