Terraform Heroku Demo

Basic Terraform script to show its Heroku power. Spins up an empty stack with a Ruby buildpack.

Similar setup to our S3 Static Website Terraform Scripts.

Requirements

• Terraform
• Heroku Account and Authorization ENV variables exported or logged into Heroku

Usage

1. terraform init - This will pull in the Heroku Terraform provider.
2. cp environment.tfvars.example environment.tfvars and change as needed (see Variable Settings section)
3. Verify: terraform plan -var-file=environment.tfvars
4. Invoke: terraform apply -var-file=environment.tfvars

Other Helpful Commands

• Destroy: terraform destroy -var-file=environment.tfvars

Variable Settings

app_name = "YOUR_APP_NAME"
secret_key_base = "Rails SECRET_KEY_BASE"
heroku_stack = "heroku-20"

Resources

• Heroku's Terraform docs
• Terraform's Heroku docs