---
title: "Heroku"
description: "How to sync secrets from Infisical to Heroku"
---

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="Usage">
    Prerequisites:

    - Set up and add envars to [Infisical Cloud](https://app.infisical.com)

    <Steps>
      <Step title="Authorize Infisical for Heroku">
        Navigate to your project's integrations tab in Infisical.

        ![integrations](../../images/integrations.png)

        Press on the Heroku tile and grant Infisical access to your Heroku account.

        ![integrations heroku authorization](../../images/integrations/heroku/integrations-heroku-auth.png)

        <Info>
          If this is your project's first cloud integration, then you'll have to grant
          Infisical access to your project's environment variables. Although this step
          breaks E2EE, it's necessary for Infisical to sync the environment variables to
          the cloud platform.
        </Info>
      </Step>
      <Step title="Start integration">
        Select which Infisical environment secrets you want to sync to which Heroku app and press create integration to start syncing secrets to Heroku.
        
        ![integrations heroku](../../images/integrations/heroku/integrations-heroku-create.png)

        Here's some guidance on each field:
        
        - Project Environment: The environment in the current Infisical project from which you want to sync secrets from.
        - Secrets Path: The path in the current Infisical project from which you want to sync secrets from such as `/` (for secrets that do not reside in a folder) or `/foo/bar` (for secrets nested in a folder, in this case a folder called `bar` in another folder called `foo`).
        - Heroku App: The application in Heroku that you want to sync secrets to.
        - Initial Sync Behavior (default is **Import - Prefer values from Infisical**): The behavior of the first sync operation triggered after creating the integration.
          - **No Import - Overwrite all values in Heroku**: Sync secrets and overwrite any existing secrets in Heroku.
          - **Import - Prefer values from Infisical**: Import secrets from Heroku to Infisical; if a secret with the same name already exists in Infisical, do nothing. Afterwards, sync secrets to Heroku.
          - **Import - Prefer values from Heroku**: Import secrets from Heroku to Infisical; if a secret with the same name already exists in Infisical, replace its value with the one from Heroku. Afterwards, sync secrets to Heroku.
        
        ![integrations heroku](../../images/integrations/heroku/integrations-heroku.png)
      </Step>
    </Steps>
  </Tab>
  <Tab title="Self-Hosted Setup">
    Using the Heroku integration on a self-hosted instance of Infisical requires configuring an API client in Heroku
    and registering your instance with it.
    <Steps>
      <Step title="Create an API client in Heroku">
        Navigate to your user Account settings > Applications to create a new API client.

        ![integrations Heroku config](../../images/integrations/heroku/integrations-heroku-config-settings.png) 
        ![integrations Heroku config](../../images/integrations/heroku/integrations-heroku-config-applications.png) 
        ![integrations Heroku config](../../images/integrations/heroku/integrations-heroku-config-new-app.png) 
        
          Create the API client. As part of the form, set the **OAuth callback URL** to `https://your-domain.com/integrations/heroku/oauth2/callback`.

        ![integrations Heroku config](../../images/integrations/heroku/integrations-heroku-config-new-app-form.png) 
      </Step>
      <Step title="Add your Heroku API client credentials to Infisical">
        Obtain the **Client ID** and **Client Secret** for your Heroku API client.
        
        ![integrations Heroku config](../../images/integrations/heroku/integrations-heroku-config-credentials.png) 
        
        Back in your Infisical instance, add two new environment variables for the credentials of your Heroku API client.

        - `CLIENT_ID_HEROKU`: The **Client ID** of your Heroku API client.
        - `CLIENT_SECRET_HEROKU`: The **Client Secret** of your Heroku API client.
        
        Once added, restart your Infisical instance and use the Heroku integration.
      </Step>
    </Steps>
  </Tab>
</Tabs>