Heroku is one of the top PaaS in the market thanks to many of its features that focus on development instead of configuration and maintenance. This ha

Migrating A Rails App To Digital Ocean

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2021-05-30 03:20:15

Heroku is one of the top PaaS in the market thanks to many of its features that focus on development instead of configuration and maintenance. This has been an excellent option if you haven’t had the necessary budget to hire DevOps specialists, but with the rise of the competitors like Digital Ocean with their own services, it is a good time to start considering migrate your apps if you want to save some money.

In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to migrate a Rails app with its PostgreSQL Database from Heroku to an App Platform of Digital Ocean. Some caveats to having into consideration before starting are that DigitalOcean App Platform only uses PostgreSQL 12 as its database and that, unlike Heroku, its deployments are made directly through push actions to the repositories of GitHub, GitLab, docker hub, or in one of its container registries.

That being said, let’s start with the creation of the App Platform, after signing in, on the home page, click on the option Apps, as indicated in the image: