# Deploying to production

[ ] Sign in to heroku
[ ] Back up the database
```
heroku pg:backups:capture
heroku pg:backups:download
```
[ ] Navigate to mciea-dashboard settings tab
[ ] Ensure environmental variables match between staging and production environments
[ ] Navigate to mciea-dashboard deploy tab
[ ] Select branch to deploy(main)
[ ] Verify in the activity log that Heroku builds the deployment
[ ] Verify that the site contains the new features
[ ] Run any one_off scripts that have been introduced for this release, as necessary
[ ] Run the db:seed script
[ ] Verify that the data represented on the different tabs matches what is expected.  The items listed in the measure key should be represented on the site.
