Heroku tutorial - Basic understanding

Question: What is Heroku?
Heroku is a cloud "platform as a service (PaaS)" supporting several programming languages that is used as a web application.


Question: Can we deploy the PHP Project in Heroku?
Yes, you can do. You can even deploy Java, nodeJs, Python and Go project also.


Question: What other programming language it support?

Ruby programming
Java 
Node.js
Scala
Clojure
Python
PHP
Go

Question:How many Apps created on Heroku?
13 million.


Question:How many services Heroku have?
150+ Add-on Services


Question: Is Heroku secure?
Yes, It is.


Question: What Heroku does?
Heroku is a platform for data as well as apps - providing a secure, scalable database-as-a-service.
It is million of developers tools like database followers, forking, dataclips and automated health checks.

Question: What is offical website of heroku?
https://www.heroku.com/


Question: What are the steps to configure PHP Project?

1. Introduction: Installed PHP, composer locally.
2. Set up: a) Download the heroku CLI.
   b) Installed the CLI with Git.
   c) Login with heroku account.
3. Prepare the app
4. Deploy the app
5. View logs
6. Define a Procfile
7. Scale the app
8. Declare app dependencies
9. Push local changes
10. Provision add-ons
11. Start an interactive shell
12. Define config vars
13. Provision a database