[Question] Deploying to Heroku

There probably needs to be more documentation on how to deploy to heroku. I’ve added a deploy button in https://github.com/golastmile/rasa_nlu/pull/89 and upon attempting to deploy, I now have to or have the option to fill in the following.

• RASA_TOKEN (token for validating requests)
  • This is automatically generated, but what is this used for? Do I need to look up this value later?
• RASA_BACKEND (which backend to use)
  • Looks like this is documented here: https://github.com/golastmile/rasa_nlu/blob/master/docs/config.rst might be helpful to link back to this.
• RASA_PATH (where to save models)
  • Am I generating these models? Do I need to back these up?
• RASA_LOGDIR (where to save logs)
  • Fine as is. Could talk more about what is being logged.
• RASA_MITIE_FILE (file containing mitie feature extractor)
  • If I’m using spacy_sklearn for my backend, why is this still required?
• RASA_SERVER_MODEL_DIR (dir containing model which should be used to process requests)
  • Not sure what this is used for? https://github.com/golastmile/rasa_nlu/blob/master/docs/config.rst is scarse on details.
• AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY (secret key for S3 access)
  • What permissions are required for uploading? Just PutObject or something else?
• AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID (key id for S3 access)
  • What permissions are required for uploading? Just PutObject or something else?
• BUCKET_NAME (name of s3 bucket)
  • Is there a specific directory structure for the s3 bucket?
• AWS_REGION (aws region of S3 bucket)
  • Fine as is.

There probably should be another document such as deploying-to-heroku.md or deploy/heroku.md explaining what each variable does.

[beamercola]

@alvin-reyes oh awesome. could you share how you set it up?

[alvin-reyes]

Hi everyone. What dyno do we need to get RASA up and running? I tried deploying RASA in a free tier and it seems to work as expected.