Undeploy (Remove) Apps from Heroku

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In this short Heroku post, I’d like to share with you guys, about how to undeploy, remove or delete applications from Heroku cloud platform. There are two ways for deleting an application deployed on Heroku: via Heroku web dashboard, or via Heroku CLI.

 

1. Undeploy apps using Heroku web dashboard

You can delete an app from Heroku via web interface. Follow these steps:

- Sign in to your Heroku account, and go to Apps Dashboard.

- Click on the name of the app which you want to undeploy.

- Click Settings page:

undeploy heroku app click settings

- Scroll to the end of the Settings page, and click Delete app…button:

click Delete app button

- A delete confirmation dialog appears. You need to enter the app’s name to confirm:

delete app confirmation dialog

- Click Delete app button to permanently undeploy the app. Heroku will delete all data used by the app, including installed add-ons.


2. Undeploy apps using Heroku CLI

You can also delete an app from Heroku in command line. Make sure that you logged in Heroku CLI, and follows the steps below:

- Type heroku apps to list all deployed apps so you can know the name of the app which you want to remove:

heroku list apps

- Type heroku apps:destroy -a <appname> to delete the app specified by <appname>. For example:

heroku destroy app

- Type the app’s name to confirm and hit Enter. Heroku will delete the app and associated data (including installed add-ons) permanently.

 

NOTES:

- You can destroy the app in a single command by putting --confirm=<appname> at the end like this:

heroku apps:destroy -a codejava-app --confirm=codejava-app

- To learn more about the command syntax, type heroku help apps:destroy

That’s how to undeploy (delete) apps from Heroku using both web interface and CLI. I hope you found this article helpful. I recommend you watch the following video to see Heroku apps undeployment in action:

 

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