Select tool for adding static IP support to apps deployed on Heroku

[hancush]

Background

We deployed the Metro dashboard to AWS infrastructure because we needed a static IP to whitelist for Solr, but Heroku apps don't, by default, have them. Turns out there are a few add-ons that support this need:

• https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/quotaguardstatic
• https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/fixie

Proposal

I'd like to compare these add-ons in terms of ease of use and pricing and recommend one for future Heroku apps that require a static IP for whatever reason.

Deliverables

I'll update our Heroku documentation to recommend an add-on for static IP support.

Timeline

Less than one day.

[smcalilly]

We've successfully used the QuotaGuard static add-on in the CCFP app. Here's a PR for context: https://github.com/fpdcc/ccfp-asset-dashboard/pull/91

We also have a WIP in the IL NWSS project: https://github.com/datamade/il-nwss-dashboard/pull/152

I think we've figured out a working solution for this, should documenting this be the next step @hancush?

[hancush]

@smcalilly Yessir