Leverage build automation and containerization for streamlined deployment.

There’s a consistent demand for speed and efficiency when developing software solutions. Not only do your applications need to compile flawlessly, but today’s modern tech space has forced the “it works on my machine” phrase to become a vulgarity. Today’s applications almost always need forms of containerization and reproducibility so that your team and your customers can interact with your products from anywhere, at anytime.

In this article, we’re going to cover the fundamentals of automating Docker builds for a Go application using Gradle. I’ll be covering the basics of each technology in order to better see how they interact with each other.

Let’s code!

A Basic Go Server

I absolutely love how simple Go keeps things when setting up a simple server — we can do it in only 22 lines of code! Here we define our main function to first initiate a new http.HandleFunc() method which takes a route and a function for a handler. So when we hit the default "/" route, we will call the handler() method which writes a programming joke to our http.ResponseWriter. Then we just call http.ListenAndServe() on port 8080 and boom, our server is ready to Go!

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