\\ Backplane Heroku Buildpack

NOTE: This buildpack is currently experimental.

For use with backplane.io in conjunction with heroku.com.

How it works

The Backplane buildpack will do the following things at compile time:

• Install the latest agent
• Install a .profile.d/backplane.sh script - This will start the agent at runtime.

At runtime:

• Start the Backplane agent backplane connect - This will get its labels from the BACKPLANE_LABELS environment variable and its authentication token from BACKPLANE_TOKEN.

Use

Setup backplane routing

If you haven't already created a route now is a good time to do so:

$ backplane route myendpoint.com "some=label"

Add the backplane buildpack

Add the Backplane buildpack to the list of buildpacks for your Heroku app and configure:

$ heroku buildpacks:add https://github.com/backplane/backplane-heroku-buildpack
$ heroku config:set BACKPLANE_LABELS="some=label" $(backplane generate env | grep TOKEN)

You are now ready to deploy:

$ git push heroku master

NOTE: You may now turn off inbound traffic from Heroku's router by changing your process name from web to www or whatever you see fit. Each process should still bind to 127.0.0.1:$PORT where the backplane agent will be looking for it. However, if you do change the process name, be sure to whitelist it with the BACKPLANE_PROCESS_ALLOW environment variable.

Test http://myendpoint.com.

For more information on setting up backplane see backplane help.

Whitelist process types

Use enviroment variable BACKPLANE_PROCESS_ALLOW to whitelist process types which serve http traffic. If left unset, the process type 'web' and 'www' will be whitelisted by default.

Example:

$ heroku config:set BACKPLANE_PROCESS_ALLOW=www,admin

Known Issues

Fetch Error

At times Heroku may report:

Push rejected, failed to detect set buildpack https://github.com/backplane/backplane-heroku-buildpack

This happens intermittently without changes to the buildpack and "fixes itself" after some time due to what we believe to be issues on Heroku's end. Please contact support@backplane.io and also file a ticket with Heroku support the issue does not resolve itself in a timely manner.