Heroku Cloud Application Development

Forking an application

When maintaining most complex applications, it is a common practice to create multiple environments to support the development of various features independently, hence parallelizing the whole process and creating efficiency. It makes a lot of sense to use the stable production environment as a baseline for these multiple environments, what are being used to stage or test the application.

Using the heroku fork command allows you to do the following:

1. Copy an existing application.
2. Reprovision used add-ons (with the same pricing plan).
3. Copy configuration variables.
4. Copy any data from the Heroku Postgres database.

The following are the outcomes after successfully executing the command:

• The Heroku user executing the command is the owner ...