DevOps Articles

Containerize Your Go Developer Environment – Part 1

When joining a development team, it takes some time to become productive. Often there will be an onboarding document of some sort for setting up your environment but in my experience, this is never up to date and you always have to ask someone for help with what tools are needed.

A good example of this is that we use gRPC for many projects and so require a specific version of protoc that works with our code base. This is the first of a series of blog posts that will show you how to use Docker for Go development.

To build for your host operating system, you can specify the local platform:$ docker build --target bin --output bin/ --platform local .