Deploy Java Web Application on Heroku with Heroku CLI

This post will describe how to create and deploy a Java Web Application war to Heroku using Heroku CLI. You will need a basic understanding of Git and Maven, and have Git and Maven already installed on your system.

Pre-requisites

• Install Java 8, Maven and Git. For this post, I used Java 8 and Maven 3.5.
• Create a free account on heroku.com. This account will be used from Heroku CLI to login
• Download and Install Heroku CLI from here.

Following are the high-level steps to follow

1. Create a Simple Spring Web Application.
2. Create an application on Heroku
3. Create the Procfile
4. Create app.json
5. Update Maven pom.xml
6. Push code to Heroku