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+# 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 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.