Deploy to Heroku

Process

Ensure you have an active and valid Heroku account
Install the Heroku CLI
- See Getting Started on Heroku with Python | Heroku Dev Center
- Note autocomplete instructions
Prepare the app:
1. Clone the repository using git and change to its directory
2. Create the app:
```
heroku create --team=TEAMNAME
```
  - Allow Heroku to set a random name
  - Specify the team (omit if not applicable)
  - If you want a specific Heroku PostgreSQL plan, it's easiest to specify it here (ex. --addons=heroku-postgresql:standard-0)
Manage config variables (this can be done using the Heroku Dashboard too)
1. Edit config variables
  - Command
```
heroku config:edit
```
  - Template (Be sure to replace the xxxxxx values with appropriate data)
```
DJANGO_DEBUG_ENABLED=False
DJANGO_SECRET_KEY=xxxxxx
DJANGO_SUPERUSER_EMAIL=xxxxxx
DJANGO_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD=xxxxxx
DJANGO_SUPERUSER_USERNAME=admin
```
2. View/verify config variables
```
heroku config
```
Deploy:
```
git push heroku main
```
- (If you didn't specify --addons=heroku-postgresql:xxxxxx, above, the PostgreSQL instance will be created and linked automatically ✨)
(optional) Change dyno type.
- ⚠️ WARNING: the following command will incur a monthly charge
```
heroku ps:type standard-1x
```
Open the new app in your browser:
```
heroku open
```
- Add admin/ to the URL to access the admin interface
Import database
- ⚠️ WARNING: this assumes any existing data can be destroyed
```
heroku pg:psql < backup.sql
```

Django database migrations are triggered by bin/release_tasks, which is called by the Procfile (The Procfile | Heroku Dev Center).

Convert it:

pg_restore -f backup.sql backup.dump

If you receive an error like the following, ensure a firewall is not blocking communication on port 5432

psql: error: could not connect to server: could not connect to server:
    Connection refused