Golang buildkit with shared low-level tools / build process required for Go projects of some quality.

See Turbo Bob for more details.

How to use

build-go-project.sh is available inside the container image.

Our typical projects declare the build-go-project.sh call in the build command definition in turbobob.json.

Cross compilation is done depending on ENV variables. E.g. to build for Linux/ARM you should have BUILD_LINUX_ARM=true set. These are handled automatically if you use Turbo Bob.

Features

• Go build environment
• Contains goimports which is like gofmt for your imports - it can sometimes even automatically add missing imports!
• Contains gopls, a Go language server. Works in a container without changes to one's host system!
  • Working is somewhat tied to use with Turbo Bob (LSP working inside container needs a few tricks)
• Contains Gohack to make editing dependency modules easy
• Fully static builds (so works even on Alpine linux which doesn't have standard libc)
• Cross compilation support:
  • Linux-amd64
  • Linux-arm
  • Windows-amd64
  • macOS-amd64
• Protobuf compiler included
• Deployer integration
  • For packaging deployerspec.zip files
• doc2go for generating documentation (use case: private documentation). See why godoc isn't enough.

Standardized build process:

• Passes build version to your code
  • Using gokit/app/dynversion
• Runs static analysis
  • Uses golangci-lint (does what $ go vet does + much more)
• Runs your unit tests ($ go test)
  • With race detector enabled
• Fetches your dependencies using Go modules
• Automatically rejects Go code that is not $ go fmt'd
• Runs any code generators you might have
  • Runs $ go generate ./...
• Helper for packaging your binary as Lambda function
• Provides custom hooks between build steps if you have something special (though this might be a smell)