Authorizer Server on Heroku

Deploy production ready authorizer.dev instance using heroku with PostgreSQL and Redis and build with it in 30seconds

After click the above button you will see screen as below, follow the steps mentioned below:

Step 1: Enter the App name

App name becomes the url for your application. Example if you have entered authorizer-demo as the app name then the authorizer url will be authorizer-demo.herokuapp.com.

Step 2: Choose the Region

Select the region you want to deploy you application in. Heroku supports United States and Europe only.

Step 3: Configure Required Variables

Authorizer v2 requires the following variables. Configure them in Heroku's Config Vars section:

Variable	Description	Example
DATABASE_TYPE	Database type	postgres
DATABASE_URL	Database connection string	(auto-configured by Heroku add-on)
JWT_TYPE	JWT signing algorithm	HS256
JWT_SECRET	JWT signing secret	test
ADMIN_SECRET	Admin secret for admin operations	admin
CLIENT_ID	Client identifier (required)	123456
CLIENT_SECRET	Client secret (required)	secret

These are mapped to CLI flags at startup. Please refer to the server configuration docs for all available flags.

Notes

• Source repo: https://github.com/authorizerdev/authorizer
• Docs: https://docs.authorizer.dev/deployment/heroku/

Updating Authorizer on existing Heroku instance

• You can update the docker image to the desired version in your repository which gets created with your deployment.

• You can find all the versions on github or dockerhub