Question
How to use pipelines for development/production environments like Heroku using App Platform ?
- Posted on October 2, 2023
- DigitalOcean App Platform
Asked by Joseline Vasquez
I wanted to use pipelines to manage environments for production and staging so the app can be tested with all the changes made before push them to production, just like heroku does. I was wondering how can I achieve this?
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Hi there,
What you could do to achieve this is to create a separate app to act as your staging environment which will be separate from your production app.
Basically, create two separate apps on the App Platform, one for staging and one for production. That way you will ensure that any changes made in the staging environment do not affect the production environment until you’re ready.
Then you can set up a deployment from GitHub and for the staging app, you might want to deploy from a development or staging branch, while the production app deploys from the main branch.
Next, you can enable automatic deployments for the staging app, so every time you push changes to your development or staging branch, the staging app gets updated.
For the production app, you can choose to manually deploy when you’re confident about the changes. Alternatively, you can also set it to auto-deploy from the main branch if you prefer.
Once you’ve tested your changes in the staging environment and are satisfied, merge your changes from the development or staging branch into the main branch.
This process will mimic the pipeline structure you mentioned with Heroku. The key is maintaining separate environments for staging and production, ensuring you test all changes in a safe environment before deploying them to production.
I would also suggest having separate databases for the two environments so that the staging deployments would not affect your production environment.
Hope that this helps!
Best,
Bobby