diff --git a/Procfile b/Procfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4afeb7900918
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Procfile
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+web:    java $JAVA_OPTS -Dspring.profiles.active="datajpa,heroku" -DTOPJAVA_ROOT="." -jar target/dependency/webapp-runner.jar --port $PORT target/*.war
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/hr.bat b/hr.bat
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a7d83b14d89b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hr.bat
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+call mvn -B -s settings.xml -DskipTests=true clean package
+call java -Dspring.profiles.active="datajpa,heroku" -DDATABASE_URL="postgres://user:password@localhost:5432/topjava" -jar target/dependency/webapp-runner.jar target/*.war
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 05f7ba193502..9a01bbe5de2c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
         <spring.security.version>5.1.5.RELEASE</spring.security.version>
         <spring-data-jpa.version>2.1.9.RELEASE</spring-data-jpa.version>
         <jackson-json.version>2.9.8</jackson-json.version>
-        <tomcat.version>9.0.21</tomcat.version>
+        <tomcat.version>9.0.22</tomcat.version>
 
         <!-- Logging -->
         <logback.version>1.2.3</logback.version>
@@ -395,6 +395,50 @@
                 <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
             </activation>
         </profile>
+        <profile>
+            <id>heroku</id>
+            <!--https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/java-webapp-runner            -->
+            <build>
+                <plugins>
+                    <plugin>
+                        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
+                        <version>3.1.1</version>
+                        <executions>
+                            <execution>
+                                <phase>package</phase>
+                                <goals>
+                                    <goal>copy</goal>
+                                </goals>
+                                <configuration>
+                                    <artifactItems>
+                                        <!--https://github.com/jsimone/webapp-runner#using-without-memcached-or-redis-->
+                                        <artifactItem>
+                                            <groupId>com.github.jsimone</groupId>
+                                            <artifactId>webapp-runner-main</artifactId>
+                                            <version>9.0.22.0</version>
+                                            <destFileName>webapp-runner.jar</destFileName>
+                                        </artifactItem>
+                                    </artifactItems>
+                                </configuration>
+                            </execution>
+                        </executions>
+                    </plugin>
+                </plugins>
+            </build>
+            <dependencies>
+                <dependency>
+                    <groupId>org.postgresql</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
+                    <version>${postgresql.version}</version>
+                </dependency>
+                <dependency>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>tomcat-jdbc</artifactId>
+                    <version>${tomcat.version}</version>
+                </dependency>
+            </dependencies>
+        </profile>
     </profiles>
 
     <dependencyManagement>
diff --git a/settings.xml b/settings.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9681d723272c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/settings.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0"
+          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
+
+    <activeProfiles>
+        <activeProfile>heroku</activeProfile>
+    </activeProfiles>
+</settings>
diff --git a/src/main/resources/db/heroku.properties b/src/main/resources/db/heroku.properties
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c8146ba6f139
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/resources/db/heroku.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+jpa.showSql=false
+hibernate.format_sql=false
+hibernate.use_sql_comments=false
+database.init=false
+jdbc.initLocation=initDB.sql
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/main/resources/spring/spring-db.xml b/src/main/resources/spring/spring-db.xml
index 4789c303f66d..6a9c1aae9006 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/spring/spring-db.xml
+++ b/src/main/resources/spring/spring-db.xml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
               p:password="${database.password}"/>
     </beans>
 
-    <beans profile="postgres, heroku">
+    <beans profile="postgres">
         <!--
             For postgres driver logging
             It uses java.util.logging and logged via jul-to-slf4j bridge
@@ -75,6 +75,30 @@
         </bean>
     </beans>
 
+    <beans profile="heroku">
+        <context:property-placeholder location="classpath:/db/heroku.properties" system-properties-mode="OVERRIDE"/>
+
+        <bean class="java.net.URI" id="dbUrl">
+            <constructor-arg value="${DATABASE_URL}"/>
+        </bean>
+        <bean id="dataSource"
+              class="org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSource"
+              p:url="#{ 'jdbc:postgresql://' + @dbUrl.getHost() + @dbUrl.getPath() }"
+              p:username="#{ @dbUrl.getUserInfo().split(':')[0] }"
+              p:password="#{ @dbUrl.getUserInfo().split(':')[1] }"
+              p:driverClassName="org.postgresql.Driver"
+              p:validationQuery="SELECT 1"
+              p:maxActive="10"
+              p:minIdle="2"
+              p:maxWait="20000"
+              p:initialSize="2"
+              p:maxIdle="5"
+              p:testOnBorrow="true"
+              p:removeAbandoned="true"
+              p:testOnConnect="true"
+              p:testWhileIdle="true"/>
+    </beans>
+
     <beans profile="jpa,datajpa">
         <bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean"
               p:dataSource-ref="dataSource"
diff --git a/src/test/java/ru/javawebinar/topjava/web/user/HerokuRestControllerTest.java b/src/test/java/ru/javawebinar/topjava/web/user/HerokuRestControllerTest.java
index 7a0b5436ce2e..d2641949a78a 100644
--- a/src/test/java/ru/javawebinar/topjava/web/user/HerokuRestControllerTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/ru/javawebinar/topjava/web/user/HerokuRestControllerTest.java
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 package ru.javawebinar.topjava.web.user;
 
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.springframework.core.env.PropertySource;
+import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource;
+import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
+import org.springframework.core.io.support.ResourcePropertySource;
 import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
 import org.springframework.test.context.ActiveProfiles;
 import org.springframework.test.web.servlet.request.MockMvcRequestBuilders;
@@ -8,6 +12,8 @@
 import ru.javawebinar.topjava.util.exception.ErrorType;
 import ru.javawebinar.topjava.web.AbstractControllerTest;
 
+import java.io.IOException;
+
 import static org.springframework.test.web.servlet.result.MockMvcResultHandlers.print;
 import static org.springframework.test.web.servlet.result.MockMvcResultMatchers.status;
 import static ru.javawebinar.topjava.Profiles.HEROKU;
@@ -16,10 +22,27 @@
 import static ru.javawebinar.topjava.util.exception.ModificationRestrictionException.EXCEPTION_MODIFICATION_RESTRICTION;
 
 @ActiveProfiles({HEROKU})
-public class HerokuRestControllerTest extends AbstractControllerTest {
+class HerokuRestControllerTest extends AbstractControllerTest {
 
     private static final String REST_URL = AdminRestController.REST_URL + '/';
 
+    // Set DATABASE_URL environment for heroku profile
+    static {
+        Resource resource = new ClassPathResource("db/postgres.properties");
+        try {
+            PropertySource propertySource = new ResourcePropertySource(resource);
+            String herokuDbUrl = String.format("postgres://%s:%s@%s",
+                    propertySource.getProperty("database.username"),
+                    propertySource.getProperty("database.password"),
+                    ((String) propertySource.getProperty("database.url")).substring(18));
+            System.out.println(herokuDbUrl);
+
+            System.setProperty("DATABASE_URL", herokuDbUrl);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new IllegalStateException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
     @Test
     void delete() throws Exception {
         mockMvc.perform(MockMvcRequestBuilders.delete(REST_URL + USER_ID)
diff --git a/system.properties b/system.properties
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..180a27348d82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/system.properties
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+java.runtime.version=11
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