Heroku Cloud Application Development

Logging into the Heroku account

You can log in to your Heroku account by setting up a secure SSH session first.

Setting up SSH

If you don't use SSH already, you'll need to create a public-private key pair to push code to Heroku. This key pair is used to keep the channel of communication between the developer and Heroku secure.

Generating a public key is as simple as entering the following command:

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/Users/ahanjura/.ssh/id_rsa):
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): 
Enter same passphrase again: 
Your identification has been saved in /Users/ahanjura/.ssh/id_rsa.
Your public key has been saved in /Users/ahanjura/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
The key fingerprint ...