Tarfile Deployment

New

Introduced in 0.4.0

tar:from <app> <url>                           # Loads an app tarball from url
tar:in <app>                                   # Reads an tarball containing the app from stdin

Deploying from a tarball

In some cases, it may be useful to deploy an application from a tarball. For instance, if you implemented a non-git based deployment plugin, tarring the generated artifact may be an easier route to interface with the existing dokku infrastructure.

You can place the tarball on an external webserver and deploy via the tar:from command.

dokku tar:from node-js-app https://dokku.me/releases/node-js-app/v1

As an alternative, a deploy can be trigged from a tarball read from stdin using the tar:in command:

# run from the generated artifact directory
tar c . $* | dokku tar:in node-js-app