Dockerize golang application

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Effectz.AI

1 min readFeb 6, 2018

Project

I have built TCP based IoT communication service with golang. This service using mongodb as the data storage. Following is the structure of the project.

Main motivation of golang is keep everything as simple as possible. So I have tried to build the service with minimum source files and packages. senz.go is the main file. src directory contains source files. build directory contains build output file. Full source code of the project can be find from github

Dockerfile

Dockerfile is pretty straightforward. First I’m adding the base imagegolang 1.9. Then I’m installing third party app gopkg.in/mgo.v2 which is the mongodb driver for golang. Then I’m compiling and generating build file into build/senz. Finally adding the entry point docker-entrypoint.sh which is a shell script.

Entrypoint

docker-entrypoint.sh runs the build file that generated in build/senz

Build

docker build — tag erangaeb/zwitch:1.0 .

Push

docker push erangaeb/zwitch:1.0

Run

docker run \
-p 7070:7070 \
-e MONGO_HOST=10.2.2.3 \
erangaeb/zwitch:1.0