Heroku Action

A GitHub Action for deploying on Heroku. Based on heroku-deploy

Basic Example

In this example you must have a Procfile in the project directory and create the following file (.github/workflows/main.yml)

name: Deploy

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: CDNievas/[email protected] # This is the action
        with:
          heroku_email: "[email protected]"
          heroku_api_key: ${{secrets.HEROKU_API_KEY}}
          heroku_app_name: "this-is-an-example"

Options

You can configure the deploy to heroku passing some options to the action

Name	Type	Description	Example	Required	Default
heroku_api_key	string	Used like a password for authentication. Visit your profile settings on Heroku to obtain.	"0a3efa20-0a3efa20a3efa2"	true	-
heroku_email	string	Heroku account's email.	"[email protected]"	true	-
heroku_app_name	string	The name of the Heroku app that you are deploying. It must be all in minus and separated using "-".	"this-is-an-example"	true	-
branch	string	The name of the repository branch that you want to upload to Heroku.	"main", "deploy", "test"	false	Uploads "HEAD" content
useforce	bool	Set in true if you want to add --force to the push to Heroku command.	true, false	false	false
appdir	string	Directory that you want to deploy to Heroku.	"project", "deploy"	false	Root of repository
procfile	string	Content of the Procfile. It will be created dynamically and uploaded only to Heroku.	"web: npm start"	false	No Procfile creation
dynamicFiles	bool	Set in true if you need to upload to Heroku files created dynamically by others steps in the GitHub Action.	true, false	false	false
buildpacks	string	If you want to add custom buildpacks to the project pass the URLs in string array format. There will be installed respecting the order used.	"['url_buildpack1','url_buildpack2']"	false	No buildpacks
env_file	string	Path to a .env file	".env", "secrets/.env/"	false	No env file

Example with some options

name: Deploy

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: CDNievas/[email protected] # This is the action
        with:
          heroku_email: "[email protected]"
          heroku_api_key: ${{secrets.HEROKU_API_KEY}}
          heroku_app_name: "this-is-an-example"
          useforce: true,
          dynamicFiles: true,
          procfile: "worker: npm start",
          buildpacks: "['https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nodejs.git','https://github.com/jonathanong/heroku-buildpack-ffmpeg-latest.git']"