Fabian Lee : Software Engineer

GoLang: Go modules for package management during a multi-stage Docker build

January 29, 2020
Categories: Containers, Development

My previous article on multi-stage builds to create Docker images for Go laid the foundation for using an intermediate image as the builder your Go binary. However, this example was intentionally simplistic and did not address package and dependency management. Since the release of Go 1.11, the standard tooling has natively supported the concept of … GoLang: Go modules for package management during a multi-stage Docker build

GoLang: Glide for Go language package management

May 17, 2017
Categories: Scripting

Downloading 3rd party packages from github is made very simple in the Go language with the import statement. But similar to other languages, the complexity of versions and inter-dependencies begs the use of a package manager for any projects that are non-trivial (think npm for Javascript, pip for Python, Maven for Java, etc.). Glide is a package manager for the Go … GoLang: Glide for Go language package management

GoLang: Vendor directory for github branches other than master

May 16, 2017
Categories: Scripting

Using 3rd party packages from github is made very simple in the Go language with the import statement. But one problem is that “go get” will always pull the HEAD of the master branch and there is no way to explicitly specify another branch. The ultimate answer would be to use a package dependency manager like Glide, which … GoLang: Vendor directory for github branches other than master