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Github: automated build and publish of containerized GoLang app with Github Actions


Categories: Containers, Development

Github Actions provide the ability to define a build workflow based on Github repository events.  The workflow steps are defined as yaml and can be triggered by various events, including a code push, branch, or tagging in the repository. In this article I will detail the steps of creating a statically-linked GoLang binary that when … Github: automated build and publish of containerized GoLang app with Github Actions

Github: automated Github release of GoLang binary using Github Actions


Categories: Linux

Github Actions provide the ability to define a build workflow directly in Github.  The workflow steps are defined as yaml and can be triggered by various events, including a code push, branch, or tagging in the repository. In this article I will detail the steps of creating a statically-linked GoLang binary that is automatically built … Github: automated Github release of GoLang binary using Github Actions

Kubernetes: copying files into and out of containers without ‘kubectl cp’


Categories: Kubernetes

The ‘kubectl cp‘ command is a convenient way to get files into and out of remote containers, however it requires that the ‘tar’ utility be installed inside the container. There are many images that have removed this utility because of the identified security vulnerability, while others have removed it due to the adoption of the … Kubernetes: copying files into and out of containers without ‘kubectl cp’

Docker: Base image when deploying a GoLang binary in a container


Categories: Containers, Linux, Scripting

Update Oct 2020: multi-stage builds now provide a standard way to leverage a fat build image, while allowing your published image to remain small.  This article is still useful for comparing base image sizes. GoLang applications are a great architectural fit for a Docker container because of their single binary executable. But you need to … Docker: Base image when deploying a GoLang binary in a container

Java: Using XMLAdapter to process custom datatypes using JAXB


Categories: Java

JAXB provides a framework for two-way binding between XML and Java structures, making it easy for developers to serialize and deserialize their XML into Java objects. Decorating a class with @XmlElement and @XmlAttribute annotations is all it usually takes to build a rich domain model from XML, but sometimes you get into a situation where … Java: Using XMLAdapter to process custom datatypes using JAXB

GoLang: Running a Go binary as a systemd service on Ubuntu 16.04


Categories: Linux, Scripting

Update Oct 2022: This article has now been written for GoLang 1.19 on Ubuntu 22.04.  Go has changed the way it handles SIGURG signals, and Systemd services no longer directly forward to syslog.  Read my newer article here. The Go language with its simplicity, concurrency support,  rich package ecosystem, and ability to compile down to a single … GoLang: Running a Go binary as a systemd service on Ubuntu 16.04

GoLang: Running a Go binary as a SysV service on Ubuntu 14.04


Categories: Linux, Scripting

The Go language with its simplicity, concurrency support,  rich package ecosystem, and ability to compile down to a single binary is an attractive solution for writing services on Ubuntu. However, the Go language does not natively provide a reliable way to daemonize itself.  In this article I will describe how to take a couple of simple Go language programs, … GoLang: Running a Go binary as a SysV service on Ubuntu 14.04