Use Nginx Reverse Proxy to serve Go Services

Golang served by Nginx reverse proxy.

Check the tutorial on Medium

Requirements

• Install on of the latest stable version of Docker, and install Git
• Install Docker Compose

Installation

• Browse the repository's root
• Build the images
  • docker-compose build
• Start containers
  • docker-compose up -d

After starting containers you can test the Api at:

http://localhost/api/

Code Building

Golang is a compiled programming language so to make any changes to your app, you need to build the executable again. In this repo the build process is done inside the docker-build process. So when you need to re-compile the code you can follow this steps:

• docker-compose down
• docker-compose build
• docker-compose up -d

To simplify this steps you can create a makefile and group this commands in a single one, or on *nix system you can use this version of the commands:

docker-compose down && docker-compose build && docker-compose up -d