diff --git a/templates/go/.dockerignore b/templates/go/.dockerignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 4023f209..00000000
--- a/templates/go/.dockerignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-go
diff --git a/templates/go/Dockerfile b/templates/go/Dockerfile
deleted file mode 100644
index efb6ee7f..00000000
--- a/templates/go/Dockerfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-FROM golang:1.22-bookworm as builder
-
-WORKDIR /app
-
-COPY go.* ./
-RUN go mod download
-COPY . ./
-
-RUN CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -v -o server
-
-FROM alpine
-COPY --from=builder /app/server /app/server
-
-CMD ["/app/server"]
diff --git a/templates/go/README.md b/templates/go/README.md
index 28f319aa..466cbfb1 100644
--- a/templates/go/README.md
+++ b/templates/go/README.md
@@ -4,3 +4,6 @@ Sample project configuration of a Restate service using the Go SDK.
 
 You can run locally with `go run .` and register to Restate with
 `restate dep add http://localhost:9080`. Then you can invoke with `curl localhost:8080/Greeter/Greet --json '"hello"'`.
+
+You can build a docker image using [ko](https://github.com/ko-build/ko):
+`ko build --platform=all`