SSH + Heroku tips

ssh_heroku.md

SSH

What is SSH?

• Secure Socket Shell overview article

Generating keys and attaching them to your accounts

cd ~/.ssh
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "[email protected]"
pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
# then add to your relative account

• GitHub
• Heroku
• Bitbucket

Multiple keys for multiple hosts (GitHub, BitBucket, Heroku etc)

• Detailed article here
• Note that keys can be any name, not just "id_rsa". You just have to configure it in your ssh/config like below.

ssh-keygen -t rsa -f ~/.ssh/accountB -C "[email protected]"
subl ~/.ssh/config

# contents of config file
Host bitbucket.org
  User git
  Hostname bitbucket.org
  PreferredAuthentications publickey
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Host bitbucket-accountB
  User git
  Hostname bitbucket.org
  PreferredAuthentications publickey
  IdentitiesOnly yes
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/accountB

Config for sshing into server

subl ~/.ssh/config

# config file
Host ym 96.126.126.41
HostName 96.126.126.41
ForwardAgent yes
User joel

Host ipyxel 52.0.236.46
HostName 52.0.236.46
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/ipyxel.pem
User wpdev

Heroku

Deploying

heroku run YOUR COMMAND
# heroku run rake db:migrate
# these can be custom commands

# for configuring environment variables
heroku config:add

• Heroku rake commands help article

Heroku logs

heroku logs
# 100 lines by default

heroku logs -n 200
# 1500 maximum

• Heroku logging help article

Add ons

These are all FREE options from Heroku. You can find more here.

• Logging - Papertrail
• Transactional Email - Sendgrid
• Errors - Rollbar
• Search - Searchify
• Cron Jobs - Heroku Scheduler

Other Resources

• Thinkster Production Ready tutorials