Weeknotes 10

When deploying to Heroku I’ve always used the git push method but you can also deploy Docker containers, and I did so this week. I was expecting to have to tweak my Dockerfile in some way, however I was pleasantly surprised that everything just worked.

heroku container:push web --app <app>
heroku container:release web --app <app>

I ran into a small issue because I was deploying from an Apple M1-based computer but it was easily remedied by setting an environment variable.

export DOCKER_DEFAULT_PLATFORM=linux/amd64
heroku container:push web --app live-transcriber-api
heroku container:release web --app <app>

This allows us to run the same containers in development as well as production so it’s a big win for productivity.

Writing tests for existing code is so much harder after the implementation. But it’s important to fill in any gaps in coverage before making changes, so this week I was doing that. It was a lot trickier than I was expecting as the tests needed to cover many areas of the codebase that I was unfamiliar with so I had to learn how everything worked as I went. It feels good to have improved the test coverage.