Design and Build Great Web APIs

Solution for Chapter 11: Deploying APIs

Most of the work of deploying our API project into production is handled by the Heroku CLI Client we reviewed in the chapter. However, we need to manually deploy the application (in other words, type in the proper command in the command window) in order to complete the deployment process. That means our current level of automation is at continuous delivery. (See ​Continuous Delivery​, for details.)

This exercise challenge is for you to elevate your deployment automation to continuous deployment—to automate that last step of deploying into production. To do that, you were given a hint to modify the norman test runner tool we used in Chapter 9, ​Testing APIs​, to not only automate the testing but also ...