An introduction to deployment options supported by JHipster

Now that we have verified our production builds by deploying it locally, let's see how we can take it to actual production by using a cloud service. JHipster supports most of the cloud platforms out of the box, and provides special sub-generator commands for the popular ones such as Heroku, Cloudfoundry, and AWS.

JHipster also supports platforms such as Openshift, Google Cloud (using Kubernetes), and Rancher, but let's see them in upcoming chapters as they are more geared towards microservices. In theory, though, you could use them for Monolith deployments as well.

Heroku

Heroku (https://www.heroku.com/) is the cloud platform from Salesforce. It lets you deploy, manage, and monitor your applications on the cloud. Heroku has a focus on Applications rather than on containers and supports languages ranging from NodeJS to Java to Go. JHipster provides the Heroku sub-generator, which was built and is maintained by Heroku, making it easy...