Deploying Neo4j over the Heroku Cloud

Heroku is an excellent Platform as a Service (PaaS) provider, which offers quick development and deployment by offering ways to deploy your locally developed apps in the managed cloud. In this recipe, you will learn various ways to deploy Neo4j over the Heroku Cloud.

Getting ready

The following steps will get you ready for this recipe:

1. Create a new Heroku account by going to https://www.heroku.com/.

2. Install the Heroku Toolbelt by downloading it from https://toolbelt.heroku.com/.

How to do it...

Now, you will learn step by step how to deploy Neo4j over the Heroku Cloud:

1. Launch the bash shell and type the command heroku login.

2. It will prompt you for your Heroku credentials, which you have entered while creating an account over Heroku, as shown in the following screenshot:

   

3. Now, type the following command into the console:

   heroku apps:create <your_app_name>
   

4. Neo4j comes as a GrapheneDB add-on in Heroku. So, now to install Neo4j; type the following command:

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