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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

Running containers in the cloud


In Chapter 6Deploying Your Application in Containers, we got a thorough look at how to deploy a Go application using modern container technologies. When it comes to deploying these containers into a cloud environment, you have a variety of different ways to do that.

One possibility to deploy containerized applications is using an orchestration engine such as Kubernetes. This is especially easy when you are using the Microsoft Azure cloud or the Google Cloud Platform. Both providers offer Kubernetes as a managed service, although not under that name; look for the Azure Container Service (AKS) or Google Container Engine (GKE).

Although AWS does not offer a managed Kubernetes service, they have a similar offering called EC2 Container Service (ECS). Since ECS is a service available exclusively on AWS, it is very tightly integrated with other AWS core services, which can be both an advantage and disadvantage. Of course, you can set up your own Kubernetes cluster...