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Heroku Cloud Application Development
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Heroku Cloud Application Development

by Anubhav Hanjura
April 2014
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
7h 48m
English
Packt Publishing
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The Heroku add-on architecture

Add-ons are one way to extend the capabilities of a Heroku application. The user can add a new service such as caching or data storage to the app by provisioning an add-on and consuming the service offered. Heroku users have two ways to provision the add-ons:

  • The add-on marketplace
  • The Heroku toolbelt client

The entire process of add-on provisioning and consumption is shown in the following diagram:

The Heroku add-on architecture

The following steps describe how a new add-on is provisioned and consumed by the Heroku app:

  1. The Heroku user requests an add-on using either of the two ways indicated in the previous paragraph.
  2. Heroku sends a provisioning request ...
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