Dockerfile

## We specify the base image we need for our
## go application
FROM golang:latest as build-env
## We create an /app directory within our
## image that will hold our application source
## files
RUN mkdir /app
## We copy everything in the root directory
## into our /app directory
ADD . /app
## We specify that we now wish to execute 
## any further commands inside our /app
## directory
WORKDIR /app
## we run go build to compile the binary
## executable of our Go program
RUN go build -o main .
## Our start command which kicks off
## our newly created binary executable
FROM gcr.io/distroless/base
COPY --from=build-env /app/main /
CMD ["/main"]
## docker build -t go-rest-example .
## docker run -it --name test -p 8080:8080 go-rest-example
# PS C:\Users\sanket> curl http://localhost:8080


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