Heroku Legacy Platform has been deprecated (heroku_san will stop working soon?)

[iacobus]

Hello,

Thanks for your work on heroku_san. I'm opening this issue to flag the fact that heroku-api (https://github.com/heroku/heroku.rb), a core dependency to heroku_san, has officially been deprecated by Heroku, and it was deemed "sunset" as of April 15th, 2017. heroku-api implements what Heroku calls the "Heroku Legacy API". [1]

Since I was surprised that we could still use heroku_san, I've reached out to Heroku and they confirmed that such sunset has been "soft", as in that they are so far testing brownouts to get customers to move off the legacy API, but they plan to fully sunset it "in the short term".

From my understanding of heroku_san, the dependency on heroku-api is core, and presumably it'll stop functioning when Heroku does in fact sunset the Legacy API. Am I understanding the issue correctly? If so, is work to migrate heroku_san to https://github.com/heroku/platform-api, the new Heroku API, already happening, or where do we stand in terms of the future of the tool?

Thank you!

[1] https://devcenter.heroku.com/changelog-items/862 & https://blog.heroku.com/sunsetting_heroku_s_legacy_platform_api_v2

[arsandov]

Do you know any alternative? This API will be shutdown on June 26th https://devcenter.heroku.com/changelog-items/1147

[iacobus]

Hey @arsandov — we already had a custom deploy strategy inheriting from HerokuSan::Deploy::Base, so we've opted to replace our calls to HerokuSan::API methods (that at the moment rely on method_missing) with calls to HerokuSan::API#sh method and directly use the Heroku CLI in the deployment machine. For example, replacing api.post_app_maintenance(app, "1") with api.sh(app, "maintenance:on"). Our strategy did not have much exposure to the broad API so this was a fairly quick task. I think we'll stick to this as long as the future of heroku_san remains unclear.

[kmayer]

Anyone want pair with me this weekend to push a new release?

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Hey @arsandov — we already had a custom deploy strategy inheriting from HerokuSan::Deploy::Base, so we've opted to replace our calls to HerokuSan::API methods (that at the moment rely on method_missing) with calls to HerokuSan::API#sh method and directly use the Heroku CLI in the deployment machine. For example, replacing api.post_app_maintenance(app, "1") with api.sh(app, "maintenance:on"). Our strategy did not have much exposure to the broad API so this was a fairly quick task. I think we'll stick to this while the future of heroku_san remains unclear.

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[kmayer]

I use heroku_san every day, and so far, it hasn't failed. When it does, it'll be high on our developer backlog to get it running again. Until then, I'm resource deprived. I'm casting out for some pairing love, in hopes that two brains will get this done sooner.

[arsandov]

Thanks for the possible approach @iacobus. We use heroku_san to deploy our app, after the API sunset, we have a minor error while doing deploying in the last step (after running migrations), it looks like dynos are not being restarted, running manually heroku restart -a appname fix this issue

[ashercoren]

We are facing the same problem. Get an error at the last step. This sometimes terminates the deployment.

[driedyam]

We've been hand-rolling our deploys since the API sunset. Be great if this got updated.

[kmayer]

I've set aside some time on the 26th at a Ruby hack night to work on it.

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We've been hand-rolling our deploys since the API sunset. Be great if this got updated.

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[ItamarShDev]

Hey! any progress regarding this matter?

[kmayer]

I'll let you know by Thursday morning

[driedyam]

Sooooo?

[jqr]

I can understand the serious interest in updates, but just remember this is open source code. It's made by people just like you in their very limited free time. If you need this right away, the best move is to jump in and help! 😀

[driedyam]

Sure thing! I'm just giving Ken a hard time. We are actually good friends, so no pushiness intended.

[kmayer]

Barretto, I'd totally forgotten about your obscure, vegetative state github handle. As an update, instead of going to the meet up and happy hacking, I was on nursing duty, again. And now, I think, I've got whatever plague Asher, Aidan and Amy have. At least I'm not pooping on the floor like the cat. TMI? FOSS me, baby. Free. Open.

[ItamarShDev]

so.... any news?

[ItamarShDev]

i dont want to bother ans sound rude, but is there any plan to update this?

[kmayer]

yes, but it comes behind a lot of other things in my life. pull requests are always welcome

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i dont want to bother ans sound rude, but is there any plan to update this?

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[kristopher]

Has anybody had a chance to see how divergent the new api is?

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yes, but it comes behind a lot of other things in my life. pull requests are always welcome

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[tansaku]

@kmayer so what do we need to do to get this sorted?

[tansaku]

Sorry, that was a bit wooly. I see that heroku has switched apis. So presumably we need a wrapper for the new api and to hook that up to heroku_san and then test each function in turn.

I'll check out today and start poking around. I guess it all depends how divergent the new api is and how the old api is connected up to heroku_san ...

[tansaku]

I have it all installed and tests passing - looks like api namespace is mapped over directly, so whatever folks type in as a command can get sent directly to the api ... hmmm

[ItamarShDev]

@tansaku any updates?

[kmayer]

Looking at the code, this isn't a hard change.

@ItamarShDev This is an open source project. It is supported by the generous donation of our free time. Sam and I spent a couple of hours this weekend looking at it. If you want it to move faster, put up something, yourself.

I use this in production on our cedar-14 stack and it is still working for us. I can guarantee that the day it stops working for us, I will dedicate engineering resources ($$$) to it. So you can wait until I have funds, or you can write code.

Stop asking for updates. I don't work for you. When we have something, you'll see a commit or a pull request, or my tweets.

[driedyam]

If it is of any help to anybody, I've updated to the new api in my fork https://github.com/Cureus/heroku_san. I didn't have the bandwidth to translate all the features like dynamic app creation, but only did the ones necessary to run our project. This includes maintenance, web, workers, and restarting. Deploying and tailing logs should have continued to work, even with the old api, so that was a no-op. I've updated the tests to the modules that were updated, but yanking out the old api obviously breaks the tests for all the other methods I haven't touched which is the only reason why I haven't done a pull request yet. If somebody wants to fill in the rest of the blanks from my fork, be my guest!

[ItamarShDev]

@kmayer i asked @tansaku about updates on his research, and not for updates of the library :) i wanted to know the results of his research to try and help acctually sorry if it was misunderstood.