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Discussion on: Installing Forem/Dev using Docker on Ubuntu

 
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Akhil Naidu

In Digital Ocean we usually do not deploy like the case in Heroku.

In a vague sense, in Digital Ocean

  1. You buy VPS
  2. Install Forem, exactly like you do in your own system

But the main difference from your PC installation is that you will also change the app's environment variable to Production in the Digital Ocean.

In your personal PC, it is most; likely a development instance and by default uses production variables until you configure them to production.

Usually in Heroku, by default it is nodejs and many other variables are in a Production environment. Also, this is one of the main reason that you are supposed to configure all the environment variables in Heroku for a successful build and release.