I want to host my source on bitbucket using git because I obviously get a free private repo and I want to host my app on heroku using the source code from bitbucket.
<Deploying to Heroku should work regardless of where you host your code as the Heroku CLI adds it's own git remote for the sake of deployments. In fact, you can even git pull
from Heroku, so you could technically use Heroku as a private git repository instead (though not recommended). As for using the GitHub client to connect to bitbucket, simply change the repository remote to the URL provided by bitbucket in the settings tab of the client.
Chiming in with Stefan - this works perfectly. Here's what I did:
Just to add to zeiv's answer who said it should work: I can confirm that it does. We use bitbucket for git hosting and deploy to heroku. What you can't seem to do is add your bitbucket repo to your heroku account to have commit history show up, this feature seems to be currently limited to github (heroku's fault ;-)
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Install Heroku Toolbelt
If you haven't already, log in to your Heroku account and follow the prompts to create a new SSH public key.
$ heroku login
Create a new Git repository
Initialize a git repository in a new or existing directory
$ cd my-project/
$ git init
$ heroku git:remote -a PROJECTNAME
Deploy your application
Commit your code to the repository and deploy it to Heroku using Git.
$ git add .
$ git commit -am "make it better"
$ git push heroku master
Existing Git repository
For existing repositories, simply add the heroku remote
$ heroku git:remote -a PROJECTNAME
Bitbucket supports now Pipelines, which should make it pretty easy to deploy on Heroku. Just follow this tutorial: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/deploy-to-heroku-872013667.html
My bitbucket-pipelines.yml
to just push the master branch to Heroku looks like this:
image: node:6
clone:
depth: full
pipelines:
branches:
master:
- step:
script:
- git push -f https://heroku:$HEROKU_API_KEY@git.heroku.com/$HEROKU_APP_NAME.git $BITBUCKET_BRANCH
If you dont want to work in the command line and push to heroku the whole time and worry about maintaining SSH keys (quite annoying if you work on different boxes), then follow this guide on how to setup continuous integration using codeship. Its a free plugin on heroku.
http://blog.codeship.io/2014/04/29/continuous-deployment-heroku-bitbucket-nodejs.html