Today I’d Like to show you guys how you can easily deploy your MVC3 application
using AppHarbor.
Register your free AppHarbor account.
Visit the AppHarbor website and create your very own
account, for free.
Create your AppHarbor application.
Once you have your account set up and confirmed your email address, create your
AppHarbor application.
Create a service hook for your BitBucket repository.
This is assuming you have your code repository hosted on
BitBucket; of course there are integrations for
Github and a whole array of code repository services if that’s your flavor.
Visit the service hooks page for your project and link things up. An HTML
select element will list all of your repositories on BitBucket, just choose
the one you want to publish on AppHarbor. You will need to give AppHarbor the
necessary permissions in order to do so.
Write some code, and hg push it.
Make some changes to your code base – edit some HTML, write some C#, whatever.
All you need to do is hg push your code to BitBucket and AppHarbor will pull
the latest changeset, and automatically publish your application.
Is that slick or what?
All of this: for free – When your applications grows to production needs,
all you need to do is pay 10$/month for a 10GB database add-on.
After finding out about this service I can’t go back to manually publishing
things anymore. Using a DCVS and automatic publishing? Coding bliss.
