Golang and Docker for development and production

Why you would want to use Docker for dev and production:

• Quick on-boarding (anyone with Docker installed can start coding without setting up any other dependencies or GOPATH variables);
• Dev environment is the same as production.

What you will learn in this article:

• How to write a single Dockerfile that allows you to build a dev container that will reload code changes you make locally (without rebuilding the container) and a production container that serves the binary build;
• This is done using shared volumes, pilu/fresh, and build arguments.

How to do it:

To get started run the following commands in Terminal:

$ mkdir myGoDockerApp
$ cd myGoDockerApp
$ mkdir app
$ cd app
$ touch app.go

Then add the following code to the app.go file: