How to use heroku’s ephemeral filesystem

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To really understand the ephemeral filesystem, you need to understand what a dyno is. You can read more about how dynos work. In a nutshell, though, a process runs on Heroku in a virtual machine with its own filesystem. That virtual machine can stop for a number of reasons, taking the filesystem along with it.

The underlying filesystem will be destroyed when an app is restarted, reconfigured (e.g. heroku config ...), scaled, etc. For example, if you have two web dynos, write some files to the ephemeral filesystem, and scale to three dynos, those files will be destroyed because your app is running on new dynos.

In general, the ephemeral filesystem works just like any filesystem. Directories you have permission to write to, such as $HOME and /tmp, you can write files to. Any files that require permanence should be written to S3, or a similar durable store. S3 is preferred as Heroku runs on AWS and S3 offers some performance advantages. Any files that can be recreated at will can be stored on the dyno’s ephemeral store.

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