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Cloud Native programming with Golang

By : Mina Andrawos, Martin Helmich
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Cloud Native programming with Golang

By: Mina Andrawos, Martin Helmich

Overview of this book

Awarded as one of the best books of all time by BookAuthority, Cloud Native Programming with Golang will take you on a journey into the world of microservices and cloud computing with the help of Go. Cloud computing and microservices are two very important concepts in modern software architecture. They represent key skills that ambitious software engineers need to acquire in order to design and build software applications capable of performing and scaling. Go is a modern cross-platform programming language that is very powerful yet simple; it is an excellent choice for microservices and cloud applications. Go is gaining more and more popularity, and becoming a very attractive skill. This book starts by covering the software architectural patterns of cloud applications, as well as practical concepts regarding how to scale, distribute, and deploy those applications. You will also learn how to build a JavaScript-based front-end for your application, using TypeScript and React. From there, we dive into commercial cloud offerings by covering AWS. Finally, we conclude our book by providing some overviews of other concepts and technologies that you can explore, to move from where the book leaves off.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
7
AWS I – Fundamentals, AWS SDK for Go, and EC2

Deploying your application with Docker Compose


Up until now, actually deploying the MyEvents application from existing container images involved a number of docker container run commands. Although this works reasonably well for testing, it becomes tedious once your application runs in production, especially when you want to deploy updates or scale the application.

One possible solution for this is Docker Compose. Compose is a tool that allows you to describe applications composed of multiple containers in a declarative way (in this case, a YAML file that describes which components have built your application).

Docker Compose is part of the regular Docker installation packages, so if you have Docker installed in your local machine, you should also have Docker Compose available. You can easily test this by invoking the following command on your command line:

$ docker-compose -v

If Compose is not available on your local machine, consult the installation manual at https://docs.docker.com/compose...