Tutorial: Create a Docker image for a Go application

A template project to create a Docker image for a Go application. The example application exposes an HTTP endpoint.

The Docker build uses a multi-stage build setup to minimize the size of the generated Docker image. The Go build uses dep for dependency management.

Java developer? Check out https://github.com/miguno/java-docker-build-tutorial

Requirements

Docker must be installed. That's it. You do not need to have Go installed.

Usage and Demo

Step 1: Create the Docker image according to Dockerfile. This step uses Maven to build, test, and package the Go application. The resulting image is 7MB in size.

# This may take a few minutes.
$ docker build -t miguno/golang-docker-build-tutorial:latest .

Step 2: Start a container for the Docker image.

$ docker run -p 8123:8123 miguno/golang-docker-build-tutorial:latest

Step 3: Open another terminal and access the example API endpoint.

$ curl http://localhost:8123/status
{"status": "idle"}

Notes

You can run the Go application locally if you have Go installed.

# Build and run the application
$ go run app.go