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Heroku Cloud Application Development

By : Anubhav Hanjura
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Heroku Cloud Application Development

By: Anubhav Hanjura

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Heroku Cloud Application Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The Heroku CLI


Heroku provides a rich CLI that developers can use to interact with the Heroku platform. The Heroku CLI provides full-featured support to build, deploy, and manage your apps. It also provides commands to manage your accounts and security information, as well as helping you operate your databases and monitor your app's health. The interface is very intuitive and reminiscent of the Unix style of running commands on the shell. The Heroku CLI provides you with direct control over your Heroku applications and lets you manage various aspects of the platform.

How to get the Heroku client tool

Heroku provides a package called toolbelt that contains the Heroku CLI. The toolbelt package can be downloaded from https://toolbelt.herokuapp.com.

The Heroku toolbelt package consists of the following:

  • The Heroku client—a command-line tool for creating and managing apps, and more

  • The Foreman tool—a utility for running your app locally

  • The Git client—a source code control client tool for Git used...