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Re:Removal of Heroku free product plans by bradgessler on Thursday August 25, 2022 @02:04PM (#32597563)
You're correct! The tool stops short of migrating the database from Heroku to Fly. I'm actually going to start working on this soon. Here's what that will look like:

1. A doc will appear at https://fly.io/docs/rails/ that walks through how to move over a Heroku app, including the database. I'm going to start drafting this next week since I have a few SaaS apps running on Heroku that I want to move over.

2. If the docs are complicated and have lots of steps, I'll look into automating most of this process. I don't think I'll be able to 100% migrate Heroku apps to Fly without any intervention, but I do think moving over the app code, ENV vars, and database would be a pretty big win.

Re:Removal of Heroku free product plans by cnees on Thursday August 25, 2022 @03:37PM (#32598909)
I'm looking forward to this! It'll make moving from Heroku a lot easier. The other thing I'm looking for is a way to put a hard cap on spend so it doesn't feel risky to enter my credit card.
Re:Removal of Heroku free product plans by keehun on Friday August 26, 2022 @01:16AM (#32603608)
Hey, thanks for your warm outreach and help! I'm trying to use the https://fly.io/launch/heroku page to migrate my heroku application. I am already a paying customer for heroku, but I want to switch based on their direction.

I have authorized heroku access for fly.io page and yet no projects or applications appear in the last dropdown. Is there currently a known issue with this?

Re:Removal of Heroku free product plans by bradgessler on Friday August 26, 2022 @02:19AM (#32603922)
I can’t provide support here, but I can say next week I’m going to be cracking open the source code in that project to look into issues like this and figure out it I can’t get it to also move over the database.

If you post about this at https://community.fly.io/ others in the same boat as you and other folks from Fly will see this and give you a better response.

Re:Removal of Heroku free product plans by keehun on Friday August 26, 2022 @03:12AM (#32604172)
Thanks for your quick response! I was able to work around the broken Turboku form and also get my database migrated to fly.io with a bit of adjustment period with flyctl. Just closed out my last invoice with Heroku and closed my account!
Re:Removal of Heroku free product plans by bradgessler on Friday August 26, 2022 @02:00PM (#32610730)
Alrighty, I wrote some docs! https://fly.io/docs/rails/getting-started/migrate-from-herok...

That includes a section on migrating your Heroku DB :-)

Re:Removal of Heroku free product plans by knubie on Thursday August 25, 2022 @02:23PM (#32597852)
That’s great to hear! Thanks for the reply.