Heroku_Deployment.md

Themis Deployment Guide for Heroku

Thanks for using Themis, below is the 11 step list to getting it working!

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2. On the configuation page enter a unique name for the application and input the variables listed on the page. (If you are not using a looker.ini file for Looker authentication, you will need to input values for the 3 LOOKERSDK config vars). Below is an example of the process using fake values

3. Confirm all the deployment steps were succesful. Click on Manage App

The application is now built successfulyl and deployed on the Heroku server!

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You can now add a Scheduler add-on to control the application run. Below are the steps covering one of the available scheduling add-on for heroku.

4. Click Configure Add-ons ➡

5. Search for "heroku scheduler" and select it

6. Select the "Standard - Free Plan" and click Provision

7. You should see a notification the page: The add-on scheduler has been installed. Check out the documentation in its Dev Center article to get started. Below will be the list of add-ons. Click on the Heroku Scheduler

8. Once on the page for the scheduler, click Create Job

⚠️ Select a time where your instance is not busy so the Themis processes are not impacting your Looker users

Congratulation, you have now deployed and scheduled Themis to run.

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