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Provision the Add-On

Before we do any gem installs or code-changes, let’s provision the add-on for our Heroku app! We can either do that via the Heroku CLI with:

heroku addons:create judoscale -a YOUR_APP_NAME

or via the web UI:

By default this will provision our free White Belt plan, which includes 20 autoscales per month and all autoscaling features. This is the best way to try Judoscale before upgrading to a paid plan for a production application.

Once provisioned by Heroku, launch Judoscale via the CLI or by clicking the link in Heroku’s web UI:

heroku addons:open judoscale -a YOUR_APP_NAME

Judoscale will walk you through installing an adapter specific to your application language and framework. See below for the web frameworks and job backends we currently support:

• Web Processes
  • Ruby: Rails, anything Rack-based
  • NodeJS: Express, Fastify
  • Python: Django, Flask
• Background Job Processes
  • Ruby: Sidekiq, Solid Queue, Resque, Delayed Job, Good Job, Que, Shoryuken in Rails or Rack-based
  • Python: Celery, RQ

Once you’ve got the Judoscale packages installed, you’ll just need to check out the Judoscale app dashboard and change any default scaling configuration parameter’s you’d like!

Last step ➡ scaling configuration